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Oat bran: allergens and what’s inside

Of 83 packs of oat bran whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 99% list gluten and 5% list sesame. Another 24% carry a “may contain” line for soy. Most list oat bran.

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for a gluten-free profile, on 99% of these packs

Which allergens are in oat bran?

Of 83 packs of oat bran whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 99% list gluten, 5% list sesame, 5% list tree nuts and 4% list soy. Another 24% carry a “may contain” line for soy, 20% for tree nuts and 19% for sesame. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you99% list gluten.
Sesame allergyHeads up5% list sesame; 19% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up5% list tree nuts; 20% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Soy allergyHeads up4% list soy; 24% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up2% list milk; 8% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up1% list mustard; 1% 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 oat bran usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of oat bran list, with the share of packs that list each: oat bran (80%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 90 · Spain 28 · Germany 22 · Brazil 12.

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 oat bran.

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 oat bran?

In the Open Food Facts categories, oat bran is a kind of cereal bran.

What else is oat bran called?

French
Sons d’avoine, Son d'avoine
Spanish
Salvados de avena
Italian
Crusche di avena
Dutch
Haverzemelen
Portuguese
Farelo de aveia
Polish
Otręby owsiane

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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: Oat bran

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