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Pasta: allergens and what’s inside

Of 13,103 packs of pasta whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 84% list gluten and 23% list egg. Another 23% carry a “may contain” line for soy. Most list wheat and durum wheat semolina.

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for a gluten-free profile, on 84% of these packs

Which allergens are in pasta?

Of 13,103 packs of pasta whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 84% list gluten, 23% list egg, 14% list milk and 11% list soy. Another 23% carry a “may contain” line for soy, 17% for egg and 13% for mustard. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you84% list gluten.
Egg allergyHeads up23% list egg; 17% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up14% list milk; 5% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up11% list soy; 23% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up4% list celery; 6% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Fish allergyHeads up3% list fish; 5% 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

What is pasta usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of pasta list, with the share of packs that list each: wheat (81%), durum wheat semolina (54%), water (37%) and salt (32%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 13,183 · Italy 7,289 · United States 6,889 · Germany 4,691.

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.

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 pasta?

In the Open Food Facts categories, pasta is one of the plant-based foods.

Kinds of pastaDry pastaNoodlesCereal pastaSpaghettiEgg pastaPenneTagliatelleSpätzleLasagna sheetsLinguineRice pastaLentil pastaRigatoniUdonOrecchietteItalian pasta

What else is pasta called?

French
pâtes alimentaires, pâtes
German
Teigwaren
Spanish
Pastas alimenticias, pastas
Italian
pasta, paste alimentari
Dutch
Pasta, Deegwaren
Portuguese
massa alimentícia
Polish
Makarony, Makaron

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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

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