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Pasta salads: allergens and what’s inside

Of 544 packs of pasta salads whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 95% list gluten and 76% list egg. Another 31% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts. Most list salt, water and vinegar.

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for a gluten-free profile, on 95% of these packs

Which allergens are in pasta salads?

Of 544 packs of pasta salads whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 95% list gluten, 76% list egg, 62% list milk and 58% list mustard. Another 31% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 27% for soy and 25% for crustaceans. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you95% list gluten; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyNot for you76% list egg; 6% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyNot for you62% list milk; 11% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyNot for you58% list mustard; 11% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Fish allergyHeads up31% list fish; 21% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up18% list soy; 27% 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.

Read the gluten guide · Read the eggs guide · Read the milk guide

What are pasta salads usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of pasta salads list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (100%), water (97%), vinegar (90%) and rapeseed oil (88%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 579 · Germany 115 · United Kingdom 80 · United States 49.

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 pasta salads.

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 pasta salads?

In the Open Food Facts categories, pasta salads are one of the pasta dishes.

Kinds of pasta saladsPasta salad with meatPasta salad with fish

What else are pasta salads called?

French
Salades de pâtes
German
Nudelsalate
Spanish
Ensaladas de pasta
Italian
Insalate di pasta
Dutch
Pastasalades
Polish
Sałatki z makaronem, Sałatki makaronowe

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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: Pasta salads

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