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Pound cake: allergens and what’s inside

Of 373 packs of pound cake whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 96% list gluten and 95% list egg. Another 51% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts. Most list sugar, egg and wheat flour.

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Not for you

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

Which allergens are in pound cake?

Of 373 packs of pound cake whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 96% list gluten, 95% list egg, 67% list milk and 18% list soy. Another 51% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 31% for soy and 22% for milk. 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 you95% list egg; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyNot for you67% list milk; 22% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up18% list soy; 31% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up13% list tree nuts; 51% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up1% list sulphites; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for them.

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 is pound cake usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of pound cake list, with the share of packs that list each: sugar (98%), egg (95%), wheat flour (94%) and salt (86%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 780 · Spain 465 · Germany 95 · United States 55.

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 pound cake.

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 pound cake?

In the Open Food Facts categories, pound cake is one of the cakes.

Kinds of pound cakeMadeleines

What else is pound cake called?

French
Quatre-quarts, quatre-quart
German
Rührkuchen
Spanish
Bizcocho
Dutch
Pondscake

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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: Pound cake

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