Prepared poultry meat: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in prepared poultry meat?

Of 178 packs of prepared poultry meat whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 9% list soy, 8% list celery, 8% list milk and 4% list gluten. Another 19% carry a “may contain” line for mustard, 17% for celery and 10% for milk. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

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.

What is prepared poultry meat usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of prepared poultry meat list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (96%), chicken (66%), water (65%) and e250 sodium nitrite (60%).

• Salt96%
• Chicken66%
• Water65%
• E250 sodium nitrite60%
• Dextrose54%
• Chicken meat52%
• E301 sodium ascorbate42%
• Turkey37%
• Sugar33%
• E451 triphosphates29%
• Turkey meat29%
• Onion-family vegetable27%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 70 · Germany 56 · Spain 38 · United States 31.

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 prepared poultry meat.

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 prepared poultry meat?

In the Open Food Facts categories, prepared poultry meat is a kind of prepared meat.

What else is prepared poultry meat called?

French

Charcuteries de volaille

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: Prepared poultry meat

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