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Greek cheese: allergens and what’s inside

Of 282 packs of Greek cheese whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 98% list milk. Most list milk, salt and sheeps milk.

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for a milk allergy profile, on 98% of these packs

Which allergens are in Greek cheese?

Of 282 packs of Greek cheese whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 98% list milk. Another 1% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 1% for gluten and 1% for sesame. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Milk allergyNot for you98% list milk.
Tree nut allergyHeads up1% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up1% carry a “may contain” line for gluten.
Sesame allergyHeads up1% carry a “may contain” line for sesame.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

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What is Greek cheese usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of Greek cheese list, with the share of packs that list each: milk (93%), salt (87%), sheeps milk (68%) and goat milk (62%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 341 · Germany 220 · United States 144 · Belgium 78.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for Greek cheese.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food is Greek cheese?

In the Open Food Facts categories, Greek cheese is a kind of cheese.

Kinds of Greek cheeseFeta

What else is Greek cheese called?

In Englishcheeses from Greece
French
Fromages de Grèce, Fromages grecs
German
Griechischer Käse
Spanish
Quesos griegos, quesos de Grecia
Italian
Formaggi greci
Dutch
Griekse kazen
Polish
Sery greckie, Sery z Grecji

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Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

  1. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  2. Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: Greek cheese

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