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Nuoc mam sauce: allergens and what’s inside

Of 75 packs of nuoc mam sauce whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 97% list fish and 12% list soy. Another 8% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list salt, fish and sugar.

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for a fish allergy profile, on 97% of these packs

Which allergens are in nuoc mam sauce?

Of 75 packs of nuoc mam sauce whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 97% list fish, 12% list soy, 9% list gluten and 1% list egg. Another 8% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 8% for tree nuts and 7% for celery. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Fish allergyNot for you97% list fish.
Soy allergyHeads up12% list soy; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up9% list gluten; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up1% list egg; 4% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up1% list mustard; 7% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Peanut allergyHeads up1% list peanuts.

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 nuoc mam sauce usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of nuoc mam sauce list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (93%), fish (92%), sugar (80%) and anchovy (69%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 92 · United States 19 · Germany 16 · Thailand 13.

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 nuoc mam 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 nuoc mam sauce?

In the Open Food Facts categories, nuoc mam sauce is a kind of sauce.

What else is nuoc mam sauce called?

In EnglishFish sauce
French
Sauces Nuoc-mâm, Sauce Nuoc-mâm
German
Fischsaucen

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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: Nuoc mam sauce

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