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Pre-baked bread: allergens and what’s inside

Of 236 packs of pre-baked bread whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 97% list gluten and 13% list sesame. Another 44% carry a “may contain” line for sesame. Most list water, salt and wheat flour.

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for a gluten-free profile, on 97% of these packs

Which allergens are in pre-baked bread?

Of 236 packs of pre-baked bread whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 97% list gluten, 13% list sesame, 11% list milk and 5% list soy. Another 44% carry a “may contain” line for sesame, 28% for milk and 20% for soy. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you97% list gluten.
Sesame allergyHeads up13% list sesame; 44% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up11% list milk; 28% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up5% list soy; 20% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up2% list tree nuts; 18% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Lupin allergyHeads up2% list lupin; 7% 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 is pre-baked bread usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of pre-baked bread list, with the share of packs that list each: water (99%), salt (98%), wheat flour (91%) and malted wheat flour (42%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 167 · Germany 151 · Netherlands 65 · Switzerland 38.

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 pre-baked bread.

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 pre-baked bread?

In the Open Food Facts categories, pre-baked bread is a kind of bread.

What else is pre-baked bread called?

In Englishpart-baked breadsprebaked breadsprecooked breads
French
Pains précuits, pain précuit
German
Vorgebackene Brote
Spanish
Panes precocidos
Italian
Pane pre-cotto
Dutch
Afbakbroden, Voorgebakken broden

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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: Pre-baked bread

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