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Ready to eat combination meals: allergens and what’s inside

Of 111 packs of ready to eat combination meals whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 60% list milk and 53% list gluten. Another 28% carry a “may contain” line for mustard. Most list salt, water and onion.

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for a milk allergy profile, on 60% of these packs

Which allergens are in ready to eat combination meals?

Of 111 packs of ready to eat combination meals whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 60% list milk, 53% list gluten, 28% list fish and 23% list egg. Another 28% carry a “may contain” line for mustard, 15% for celery and 14% for sesame. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Milk allergyNot for you60% list milk; 6% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for you53% list gluten; 8% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Fish allergyHeads up28% list fish; 8% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up23% list egg; 9% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up19% list soy; 14% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up16% list sulphites; 7% 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 milk guide · Read the gluten guide · Read the fish guide

What are ready to eat combination meals usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of ready to eat combination meals list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (97%), water (97%), onion (86%) and garlic (79%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 81 · United Kingdom 49 · United States 9 · Ireland 8.

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 ready to eat combination meals.

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 ready to eat combination meals?

In the Open Food Facts categories, ready to eat combination meals are one of the combination meals.

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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: Ready to eat combination meals

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