White wheat flour: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in white wheat flour?

Of 146 packs of white wheat flour whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 100% list gluten, 1% list egg, 1% list sesame and 1% list soy. Another 16% carry a “may contain” line for soy, 13% for sesame and 12% for lupin. 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 gluten guide

What is white wheat flour usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of white wheat flour list, with the share of packs that list each: wheat flour (85%) and wheat flour type 550 (10%).

• Wheat flour85%
• Wheat flour type 55010%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 176 · Germany 63 · Bolivia 18 · Spain 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 white wheat flour.

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 white wheat flour?

In the Open Food Facts categories, white wheat flour is a kind of wheat flour.

What else is white wheat flour called?

Dutch

Witte tarwebloem

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: White wheat flour

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