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Meat-based pasta sauce: allergens and what’s inside

Of 434 packs of meat-based pasta sauce whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 38% list celery and 20% list milk. Another 17% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list salt, onion and tomato.

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for a celery allergy profile, on 38% of these packs

Which allergens are in meat-based pasta sauce?

Of 434 packs of meat-based pasta sauce whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 38% list celery, 20% list milk, 18% list gluten and 12% list soy. Another 17% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 15% for mustard and 11% for celery. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Celery allergyHeads up38% list celery; 11% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up20% list milk; 17% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up18% list gluten; 7% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up12% list soy; 5% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up8% list egg; 5% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up3% list mustard; 15% 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 is meat-based pasta sauce usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of meat-based pasta sauce list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (97%), onion (92%), tomato (91%) and sugar (77%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 418 · Germany 146 · Belgium 77 · Italy 75.

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 meat-based pasta sauce.

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 meat-based pasta sauce?

In the Open Food Facts categories, meat-based pasta sauce is a kind of pasta sauce.

Kinds of meat-based pasta sauceBolognese sauce

What else is meat-based pasta sauce called?

In EnglishTomato sauce with meat
French
Sauce tomate à la viande
German
Nudelsaucen auf Fleischbasis, Tomatensauce mit Fleisch
Spanish
Salsas para pasta a base de carne, Salsas para pasta con carne
Italian
Sughi a base di carne
Dutch
Pastasauzen met vlees

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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: Meat-based pasta sauce

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