Whole milk: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in whole milk?

Of 1,107 packs of whole milk whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 100% list milk and 3% list 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.

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What is whole milk usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of whole milk list, with the share of packs that list each: milk (98%), whole milk (48%) and cow's milk (13%).

• Milk98%
• Whole milk48%
• Cow's milk13%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: Germany 642 · France 566 · Italy 387 · Spain 373.

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 whole milk.

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 whole milk?

In the Open Food Facts categories, whole milk is a kind of milk.

What else is whole milk called?

French

Laits entiers, lait entier

German

Vollmilch, Vollmilche

Spanish

Leche entera

Italian

Latte intero

Dutch

Volle melken, Volle melk

Portuguese

Leites integrais, leite integral

Swedish

Standardmjölk

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: Whole milk

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