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Madeleines: allergens and what’s inside

Of 653 packs of madeleines whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 99% list egg and 94% list gluten. Another 55% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts. Most list egg, sugar and wheat flour.

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for an egg allergy profile, on 99% of these packs

Which allergens are in madeleines?

Of 653 packs of madeleines whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 99% list egg, 94% list gluten, 64% list milk and 28% list soy. Another 55% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 31% for soy and 22% for milk. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Egg allergyNot for you99% list egg.
Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you94% list gluten.
Milk allergyNot for you64% list milk; 22% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up28% list soy; 31% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up12% list tree nuts; 55% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Sesame allergyHeads up4% 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 eggs guide · Read the gluten guide · Read the milk guide

What are madeleines usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of madeleines list, with the share of packs that list each: egg (98%), sugar (98%), wheat flour (93%) and salt (87%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 2,325 · Spain 702 · Belgium 57 · Switzerland 48.

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 madeleines.

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 madeleines?

In the Open Food Facts categories, madeleines are a kind of pound cake.

What else are madeleines called?

In EnglishMadeleines cakesMadeleine biscuit
French
Madeleines, Madeleine ordinaire
German
Madeleine
Spanish
Magdalenas
Italian
Madeleine
Dutch
Madeleines
Portuguese
Madalenas

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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: Madeleines

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