Prepared rice: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in prepared rice?

Of 240 packs of prepared rice whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 51% list egg, 34% list gluten, 28% list milk and 26% list soy. Another 21% carry a “may contain” line for soy, 20% for crustaceans and 20% for fish. 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.

Read the eggs guide · Read the gluten guide · Read the milk guide

What is prepared rice usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of prepared rice list, with the share of packs that list each: rice (93%), salt (92%), water (79%) and onion (65%).

• Rice93%
• Salt92%
• Water79%
• Onion65%
• Sunflower oil63%
• Garlic51%
• Long grain rice50%
• Egg47%
• Pork meat46%
• Garden peas44%
• Sugar42%
• Carrot41%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 296 · Spain 24 · United Kingdom 23 · Netherlands 21.

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 rice.

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 rice?

What else is prepared rice called?

French

Riz préparés

Dutch

Kant-en-klaar rijstmaaltijden

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 rice

Contains information from Open Food Facts, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL). Read the licence · Download this guide’s data · How we check