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Hazelnut spread: allergens and what’s inside

Of 1,190 packs of hazelnut spread whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 95% list tree nuts and 72% list milk. Another 18% carry a “may contain” line for soy. Most list hazelnut, cocoa and sugar.

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Not for you

for a tree nut allergy profile, on 95% of these packs

Which allergens are in hazelnut spread?

Of 1,190 packs of hazelnut spread whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 95% list tree nuts, 72% list milk, 34% list soy and 3% list gluten. Another 18% carry a “may contain” line for soy, 12% for peanuts and 10% for milk. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Tree nut allergyNot for you95% list tree nuts; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Milk allergyNot for you72% list milk; 10% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up34% list soy; 18% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up3% list gluten; 8% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Peanut allergyHeads up1% list peanuts; 12% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Sesame allergyHeads up6% 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.

Read the tree nuts guide · Read the milk guide · Read the soy guide

What is hazelnut spread usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of hazelnut spread list, with the share of packs that list each: hazelnut (93%), cocoa (92%), sugar (90%) and e322 lecithins (82%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 1,684 · Germany 347 · Italy 330 · Belgium 310.

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 hazelnut spread.

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 hazelnut spread?

In the Open Food Facts categories, hazelnut spread is a kind of sweet spread.

Kinds of hazelnut spreadCocoa and hazelnuts spreads

What else is hazelnut spread called?

In Englishhazelnuts spread
French
Pâtes à tartiner aux noisettes, pâte à tartiner aux noisettes
German
Haselnusscremes
Spanish
Cremas a base de avellanas
Italian
Crema con nocciole, crema alle nocciole
Dutch
Hazelnootpastas
Portuguese
Creme para barrar de avelã
Polish
Smarowidła z orzechów laskowych

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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: Hazelnut spread

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