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Muesli: allergens and what’s inside

Of 2,453 packs of muesli whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 94% list gluten and 47% list tree nuts. Another 36% carry a “may contain” line for soy. Most list oat flakes, sugar and salt.

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Not for you

for a gluten-free profile, on 94% of these packs

Which allergens are in muesli?

Of 2,453 packs of muesli whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 94% list gluten, 47% list tree nuts, 18% list milk and 13% list soy. Another 36% carry a “may contain” line for soy, 33% for milk and 31% for tree nuts. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you94% list gluten.
Tree nut allergyHeads up47% list tree nuts; 31% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Milk allergyHeads up18% list milk; 33% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up13% list soy; 36% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sesame allergyHeads up8% list sesame; 31% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Peanut allergyHeads up5% list peanuts; 23% more carry a “may contain” line for them.

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 gluten guide · Read the tree nuts guide

What is muesli usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of muesli list, with the share of packs that list each: oat flakes (72%), sugar (62%), salt (56%) and wheat (52%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 2,777 · Germany 1,619 · United States 551 · Belgium 541.

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 muesli.

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 muesli?

In the Open Food Facts categories, muesli is one of the breakfast cereals.

Kinds of muesliMuesli with fruitsMuesli with chocolateCrunchy muesliMuesli with nutsBircher-style muesli

What else is muesli called?

In EnglishGranola
French
mueslis, müesli
German
Müslis, Müeslis
Spanish
Muesli, Mueslis
Italian
Muesli
Dutch
mueslis, Muesli
Portuguese
muesli
Polish
Musli
Swedish
Müsli
Danish
Müsli

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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: Muesli

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