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Lentil spread: allergens and what’s inside

Of 40 packs of lentil spread whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 35% list sesame and 20% list mustard. Another 30% carry a “may contain” line for celery. Most list salt, lentils and water.

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Not for you

for a sesame allergy profile, on 35% of these packs

Which allergens are in lentil spread?

Of 40 packs of lentil spread whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 35% list sesame, 20% list mustard, 20% list soy and 18% list celery. Another 30% carry a “may contain” line for celery, 30% for soy and 23% for gluten. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Sesame allergyHeads up35% list sesame; 20% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up20% list mustard; 23% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up20% list soy; 30% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up18% list celery; 30% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up5% list tree nuts; 20% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up3% list gluten; 23% 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.

Read the sesame guide · Read the mustard guide · Read the soy guide

What is lentil spread usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of lentil spread list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (98%), lentils (90%), water (85%) and onion-family vegetable (80%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: Germany 25 · France 23 · Poland 4 · Austria 2.

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 lentil 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 lentil spread?

In the Open Food Facts categories, lentil spread is a kind of plant-based spread.

What else is lentil spread called?

In EnglishLentil dips
French
Tartinades de lentilles
German
Linsen-Aufstriche, Linsen-Aufstrich

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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: Lentil spread

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