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Pork pies: allergens and what’s inside

Of 51 packs of pork pies whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 96% list gluten and 84% list egg. Most list wheat flour, salt and lard.

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

Which allergens are in pork pies?

Of 51 packs of pork pies whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 96% list gluten, 84% list egg, 8% list milk and 4% list mustard. Another 2% carry a “may contain” line for peanuts, 2% for sesame and 2% for tree nuts. 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.
Egg allergyNot for you84% list egg.
Milk allergyHeads up8% list milk.
Mustard allergyHeads up4% list mustard.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up4% list sulphites.
Shellfish allergyHeads up2% list crustaceans; 2% list molluscs.

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 pork pies usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of pork pies list, with the share of packs that list each: wheat flour (94%), salt (90%), lard (88%) and water (88%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: United Kingdom 59 · France 9 · Germany 1 · Spain 1.

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 pork pies.

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 pork pies?

In the Open Food Facts categories, pork pies are one of the meat pies.

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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: Pork pies

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