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Legumes and their products: allergens and what’s inside

Of 13,717 packs of legumes and their products whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 22% list peanuts and 18% list soy. Another 11% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts. Most list salt and water.

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for a peanut allergy profile, on 22% of these packs

Which allergens are in legumes and their products?

Of 13,717 packs of legumes and their products whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 22% list peanuts, 18% list soy, 5% list gluten and 2% list tree nuts. Another 11% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 10% for gluten and 6% for soy. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Peanut allergyHeads up22% list peanuts; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Soy allergyHeads up18% list soy; 6% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up5% list gluten; 10% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up2% list tree nuts; 11% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Celery allergyHeads up2% list celery; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up2% list milk; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for it.

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 are legumes and their products usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of legumes and their products list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (61%), water (53%), peanut (22%) and sugar (20%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 11,693 · United States 5,109 · Germany 3,804 · Spain 3,217.

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 legumes and their products.

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 legumes and their products?

In the Open Food Facts categories, legumes and their products are one of the plant-based foods.

What else are legumes and their products called?

French
Légumineuses et dérivés
German
Hülsenfrüchte und Hülsenfruchtprodukte
Spanish
Leguminosas y derivados, Legumbres y derivados
Italian
Legumi ed i loro prodotti
Dutch
Bonen- en afgeleide producten
Portuguese
Legumes e seus produtos
Polish
Strączkowe i produkty strączkowe
Danish
Bælgplanter og -produkter

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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: Legumes and their products

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