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Potato preparations: allergens and what’s inside

Of 651 packs of potato preparations whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 41% list milk and 15% list gluten. Another 20% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list potato and salt.

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for a milk allergy profile, on 41% of these packs

Which allergens are in potato preparations?

Of 651 packs of potato preparations whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 41% list milk, 15% list gluten, 10% list egg and 9% list sulphites. Another 20% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 15% for celery and 15% for gluten. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Milk allergyHeads up41% list milk; 20% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up15% list gluten; 15% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up10% list egg; 13% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up9% list sulphites; 5% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Celery allergyHeads up3% list celery; 15% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up3% list soy; 10% 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 potato preparations usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of potato preparations list, with the share of packs that list each: potato (97%), salt (69%), e471 mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (31%) and sunflower oil (28%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 642 · Germany 302 · United Kingdom 119 · Switzerland 107.

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 potato preparations.

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 potato preparations?

In the Open Food Facts categories, potato preparations are one of the potatoes and their products.

Kinds of potato preparationsRostis

What else are potato preparations called?

French
Préparations à base de pommes de terre
German
Kartoffelzubereitungen
Italian
preparazioni a base di patate
Dutch
Aardappelbereidingen
Portuguese
Preparados de batata
Danish
Kartoffeltilberedninger

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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: Potato preparations

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