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Pitas: allergens and what’s inside

Of 221 packs of pitas whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 96% list gluten and 5% list soy. Another 8% carry a “may contain” line for soy. Most list salt, water and wheat flour.

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for a gluten-free profile, on 96% of these packs

Which allergens are in pitas?

Of 221 packs of pitas whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 96% list gluten, 5% list soy, 5% list milk and 3% list sesame. Another 8% carry a “may contain” line for soy, 7% for milk and 5% for sesame. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you96% list gluten.
Soy allergyHeads up5% list soy; 8% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up5% list milk; 7% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sesame allergyHeads up3% list sesame; 5% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up2% list mustard; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up1% list egg; 3% 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 are pitas usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of pitas list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (99%), water (96%), wheat flour (89%) and sugar (38%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: United States 264 · France 118 · Canada 99 · United Kingdom 54.

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 pitas.

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 pitas?

In the Open Food Facts categories, pitas are one of the flatbreads.

What else are pitas called?

In EnglishPittasPita breadpitta bread
French
Pains Pita, Pains pitta
Spanish
Pitas, Pan pita
Italian
Pita
Dutch
Pittabroden, Pittabrood
Portuguese
Pães pita
Swedish
Pitabröd
Danish
Pitabrød

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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: Pitas

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