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Sliced bacon: allergens and what’s inside

Of 186 packs of sliced bacon whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 6% list celery and 3% list milk. Another 18% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list salt, e250 sodium nitrite and pork meat.

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Not for you

for a celery allergy profile, on 6% of these packs

Which allergens are in sliced bacon?

Of 186 packs of sliced bacon whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 6% list celery, 3% list milk, 2% list gluten and 2% list soy. Another 18% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 15% for tree nuts and 12% for soy. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Celery allergyHeads up6% list celery; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up3% list milk; 18% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up2% list gluten.
Soy allergyHeads up2% list soy; 12% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up1% list egg; 8% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up1% list tree nuts; 15% 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.

What is sliced bacon usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of sliced bacon list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (98%), e250 sodium nitrite (84%), pork meat (72%) and dextrose (56%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 103 · United States 100 · Netherlands 25 · Italy 17.

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 sliced bacon.

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 sliced bacon?

In the Open Food Facts categories, sliced bacon is a kind of bacon.

What else is sliced bacon called?

French
Bacon en tranche, bacon en tranches
German
Speckscheiben
Italian
Pancetta tagliata, Pancetta affettata
Dutch
Ham in plakjes

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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: Sliced bacon

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