Food and dish guide
Sesame oil: allergens and what’s inside
Of 199 packs of sesame oil whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 100% list sesame. Another 11% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts. Most list sesame oil.
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for a sesame allergy profile, on 100% of these packs
Which allergens are in sesame oil?
Of 199 packs of sesame oil whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 100% list sesame. Another 11% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 3% for peanuts and 3% for soy. 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 sesame oil usually made of?
The ingredients most packs of sesame oil list, with the share of packs that list each: sesame oil (84%), sesame (17%) and virgin sesame oil (13%).
Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 254 · United States 99 · Germany 91 · Canada 42.
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 sesame oil.
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 sesame oil?
In the Open Food Facts categories, sesame oil is a kind of cereal oil.
What else is sesame oil called?
- French
- Huiles de sésame
- German
- Sesamöle
- Spanish
- Aceites de sésamo
- Italian
- Olio di sesamo, olio di semi di sesamo
- Dutch
- Sesamoliën
- Portuguese
- Óleos de sésamo
- Swedish
- Sesamoljor, Sesamolja
- Danish
- Sesamolier
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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.
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
- Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: Sesame oil
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