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Vegetable sauce: allergens and what’s inside

Of 188 packs of vegetable sauce whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 15% list celery and 8% list milk. Another 10% carry a “may contain” line for mustard. Most list salt, onion-family vegetable and tomato.

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for a celery allergy profile, on 15% of these packs

Which allergens are in vegetable sauce?

Of 188 packs of vegetable sauce whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 15% list celery, 8% list milk, 5% list gluten and 3% list mustard. Another 10% carry a “may contain” line for mustard, 9% for celery and 8% for milk. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Celery allergyHeads up15% list celery; 9% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Milk allergyHeads up8% list milk; 8% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up5% list gluten; 5% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up3% list mustard; 10% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up3% list soy; 4% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Fish allergyHeads up2% list fish; 1% 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.

What is vegetable sauce usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of vegetable sauce list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (98%), onion-family vegetable (87%), tomato (71%) and sugar (70%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 202 · Germany 72 · United Kingdom 19 · Italy 18.

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 sauce.

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 vegetable sauce?

In the Open Food Facts categories, vegetable sauce is a kind of meal sauce.

Kinds of vegetable sauceTomato sauce with vegetables

What else is vegetable sauce called?

French
Sauces aux légumes
German
Gemüsesaucen
Spanish
Salsas con verduras, Salsas con vegetales
Italian
Salse a base di vegetali
Dutch
Groentesauzen
Polish
Sosy warzywne

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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 sauce

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