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Snails: allergens and what’s inside

Of 109 packs of snails whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 96% list molluscs and 64% list milk. Another 26% carry a “may contain” line for egg. Most list salt, snail and garlic.

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for a shellfish allergy profile, on 96% of these packs

Which allergens are in snails?

Of 109 packs of snails whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 96% list molluscs, 64% list milk, 40% list celery and 14% list gluten. Another 26% carry a “may contain” line for egg, 24% for fish and 24% for soy. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Shellfish allergyNot for you96% list molluscs; 3% list crustaceans; 23% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Milk allergyNot for you64% list milk; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up40% list celery; 8% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up14% list gluten; 22% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Egg allergyHeads up7% list egg; 26% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up7% list soy; 24% more carry a “may contain” line for it.

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 crustaceans and molluscs guide · Read the milk guide · Read the celery guide

What are snails usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of snails list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (93%), snail (92%), garlic (67%) and parsley (64%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 456 · Spain 19 · Belgium 13 · Switzerland 13.

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 snails.

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 snails?

In the Open Food Facts categories, snails are a kind of meat.

Kinds of snailsSnails from Burgundy

What else are snails called?

French
Escargots
German
Schnecken
Spanish
Caracoles
Italian
Lumache, Chiocciole
Dutch
Slakken

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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: Snails

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