Vegetable salads: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in vegetable salads?

Of 320 packs of vegetable salads whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 51% list egg, 50% list mustard, 48% list gluten and 47% list fish. Another 24% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 19% for crustaceans and 19% for gluten. 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.

Read the eggs guide · Read the mustard guide · Read the gluten guide

What are vegetable salads usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of vegetable salads list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (96%), vinegar (88%), water (88%) and onion-family vegetable (70%).

• Salt96%
• Vinegar88%
• Water88%
• Onion-family vegetable70%
• Colza oil69%
• Sugar60%
• Tomato59%
• Alcohol vinegar55%
• Carrot53%
• Egg49%
• Leaf vegetable46%
• E415 xanthan gum41%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 381 · Germany 31 · Poland 30 · Switzerland 23.

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 salads.

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 salads?

In the Open Food Facts categories, vegetable salads are one of the prepared salads.

What else are vegetable salads called?

French

Salades de légumes

German

Gemüsesalat

Italian

Insalate di verdure

Dutch

Groentesalade

Polish

Sałatki z warzywami

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 salads

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