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Vegetable based frozen ready-made meals: allergens and what’s inside

Of 75 packs of vegetable based frozen ready-made meals whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 45% list soy and 41% list gluten. Another 5% carry a “may contain” line for celery. Most list salt, garlic and onion.

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for a soy allergy profile, on 45% of these packs

Which allergens are in vegetable based frozen ready-made meals?

Of 75 packs of vegetable based frozen ready-made meals whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 45% list soy, 41% list gluten, 31% list milk and 19% list sesame. Another 5% carry a “may contain” line for celery, 4% for egg and 3% for mustard. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Soy allergyHeads up45% list soy; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up41% list gluten; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up31% list milk.
Sesame allergyHeads up19% list sesame; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up19% list sulphites.
Tree nut allergyHeads up19% list tree nuts; 3% 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.

Read the soy guide · Read the gluten guide · Read the milk guide

What are vegetable based frozen ready-made meals usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of vegetable based frozen ready-made meals list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (99%), garlic (89%), onion (83%) and water (79%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: United States 48 · United Kingdom 27 · France 25 · Germany 2.

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 vegetable based frozen ready-made meals.

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 vegetable based frozen ready-made meals?

In the Open Food Facts categories, vegetable based frozen ready-made meals are one of the frozen ready-made meals.

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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: Vegetable based frozen ready-made meals

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