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Onions and their products: allergens and what’s inside

Of 809 packs of onions and their products whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 18% list gluten and 8% list sulphites. Most list onion.

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Which allergens are in onions and their products?

Of 809 packs of onions and their products whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 18% list gluten, 8% list sulphites, 1% list milk and 1% list mustard. Another 5% carry a “may contain” line for mustard, 3% for celery and 2% for milk. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up18% list gluten; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up8% list sulphites; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Milk allergyHeads up1% list milk; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up1% list mustard; 5% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up1% list soy; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up3% carry a “may contain” line for celery.

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.

What are onions and their products usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of onions and their products list, with the share of packs that list each: onion (90%), salt (41%), vinegar (25%) and sugar (23%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 1,115 · Germany 318 · Spain 266 · United Kingdom 141.

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 onions and their products.

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 onions and their products?

In the Open Food Facts categories, onions and their products are one of the vegetables based foods.

Kinds of onions and their productsOnionsFried onions

What else are onions and their products called?

French
Oignons et dérivés
German
Zwiebelprodukte, Zwiebeln und ihre Produkte
Spanish
Cebollas y derivados
Italian
Cipolle e derivati
Dutch
Ui en afgeleide producten
Portuguese
Cebolas e derivados

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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: Onions and their products

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