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Lettuces: allergens and what’s inside

Of 301 packs of lettuces whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 8% list egg and 8% list mustard. Most list lettuce.

By Bravoora teamUpdated Sources checked 3 sourcesHow we check

Not for you

for an egg allergy profile, on 8% of these packs

Which allergens are in lettuces?

Of 301 packs of lettuces whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 8% list egg, 8% list mustard, 7% list gluten and 6% list milk. Another 4% carry a “may contain” line for celery, 2% for tree nuts and 2% for fish. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Egg allergyHeads up8% list egg; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up8% list mustard; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up7% list gluten; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up6% list milk; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up4% list celery; 4% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Fish allergyHeads up4% list fish; 2% 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.

What are lettuces usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of lettuces list, with the share of packs that list each: lettuce (68%), iceberg lettuce (37%), salt (17%) and water (17%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 370 · Spain 196 · Germany 91 · United States 88.

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 lettuces.

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 lettuces?

In the Open Food Facts categories, lettuces are one of the leaf vegetables.

Kinds of lettucesIceberg lettuce

What else are lettuces called?

In Englishlettuce
French
Laitues, laitue
German
Lattich, Gartensalat
Spanish
Lechuga, Lechugas
Italian
Lattuga, lattughe
Dutch
sla
Portuguese
alface
Polish
sałata, Sałata siewna
Swedish
Sallatsläktet, Sallat
Danish
Salat

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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: Lettuces

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