Food and dish guide
Sesame: allergens and what’s inside
Of 233 packs of sesame whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 99% list sesame and 4% list gluten. Another 28% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts. Most list sesame.
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Not for you
for a sesame allergy profile, on 99% of these packs
Which allergens are in sesame?
Of 233 packs of sesame whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 99% list sesame, 4% list gluten, 3% list soy and 2% list tree nuts. Another 28% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 26% for gluten and 22% 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 usually made of?
The ingredients most packs of sesame list, with the share of packs that list each: sesame (98%) and sesame seeds (44%).
Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 238 · Germany 112 · Spain 88 · Belgium 44.
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.
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?
In the Open Food Facts categories, sesame is one of the seeds.
What else is sesame called?
- French
- Sésame, Graines de sésame
- German
- Sesam
- Spanish
- Sésamo, Ajonjolí
- Italian
- Sesamo
- Dutch
- Sesamzaden, Sesamzaad
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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
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