Food and dish guide

Ice pops: allergens and what’s inside

Of 231 packs of ice pops whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 15% list milk and 6% list soy. Another 30% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list water, sugar and e330 citric acid.

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for a milk allergy profile, on 15% of these packs

Which allergens are in ice pops?

Of 231 packs of ice pops whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 15% list milk, 6% list soy, 3% list gluten and 1% list egg. Another 30% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 24% for tree nuts and 14% for peanuts. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Milk allergyHeads up15% list milk; 30% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up6% list soy; 9% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up3% list gluten; 9% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up1% list egg; 10% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up24% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts.
Peanut allergyHeads up14% carry a “may contain” line for peanuts.

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.

What are ice pops usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of ice pops list, with the share of packs that list each: water (88%), sugar (88%), e330 citric acid (71%) and e412 guar gum (58%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 212 · Spain 99 · Germany 89 · United States 73.

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 ice pops.

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 are ice pops?

In the Open Food Facts categories, ice pops are a kind of ice cream and sorbets.

What else are ice pops called?

In EnglishPopsicleFreeze popIce lollyIce block
French
Glaces à l'eau
German
Wassereis
Spanish
Helados de hielo, Helados de agua
Italian
Ghiaccioli
Dutch
Waterijsjes, Waterijs

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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: Ice pops

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