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Sliced cheese: allergens and what’s inside

Of 1,039 packs of sliced cheese whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 100% list milk and 4% list egg. Most list salt, milk and coagulating enzyme.

By Bravoora teamUpdated Sources checked 3 sourcesHow we check

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for a milk allergy profile, on 100% of these packs

Which allergens are in sliced cheese?

Of 1,039 packs of sliced cheese whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 100% list milk and 4% list egg. Another 1% carry a “may contain” line for egg and 1% for tree nuts. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Milk allergyNot for you100% list milk.
Egg allergyHeads up4% list egg; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Tree nut allergyHeads up1% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts.

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.

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What is sliced cheese usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of sliced cheese list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (95%), milk (93%), coagulating enzyme (73%) and lactic ferments (67%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 828 · Germany 525 · Spain 418 · Portugal 131.

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 cheese.

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 cheese?

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

Kinds of sliced cheeseCheddar slices

What else is sliced cheese called?

French
Fromages en tranches, tranches de fromage
German
Scheibenkäse, Käseaufschnitt
Spanish
Quesos en lonchas, Lonchas de queso
Italian
Formaggio a fette
Dutch
Kazen in plakjes
Portuguese
Queijos em fatias
Polish
Sery w plastrach

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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 cheese

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

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