Food and dish guide
Special bread: allergens and what’s inside
Of 1,365 packs of special bread whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 93% list gluten and 26% list sesame. Another 26% carry a “may contain” line for milk. Most list salt, water and wheat flour.
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Not for you
for a gluten-free profile, on 93% of these packs
Which allergens are in special bread?
Of 1,365 packs of special bread whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 93% list gluten, 26% list sesame, 16% list milk and 12% list soy. Another 26% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 21% for sesame and 19% 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 special bread usually made of?
The ingredients most packs of special bread list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (97%), water (87%), wheat flour (87%) and sugar (58%).
Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 1,630 · United States 1,528 · Spain 663 · Germany 432.
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 special bread.
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 special bread?
In the Open Food Facts categories, special bread is a kind of bread.
What else is special bread called?
- French
- Pains spéciaux, Pain spéciaux
- German
- Spezielle Brote
- Spanish
- Panes especiales
- Italian
- Pani speciali
- Dutch
- Speciale broden, Speciaal brood
- Portuguese
- Pães especiais
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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: Special bread
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