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Worcestershire sauce: allergens and what’s inside

Of 83 packs of Worcestershire sauce whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 77% list fish and 39% list gluten. Most list vinegar, salt and garlic.

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Not for you

for a fish allergy profile, on 77% of these packs

Which allergens are in Worcestershire sauce?

Of 83 packs of Worcestershire sauce whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 77% list fish, 39% list gluten, 22% list soy and 5% list celery. Another 4% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 2% for egg and 2% for gluten. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Fish allergyNot for you77% list fish.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up39% list gluten; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Soy allergyHeads up22% list soy; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up5% list celery; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Mustard allergyHeads up2% list mustard; 1% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up1% list sulphites.

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 fish guide · Read the gluten guide · Read the soy guide

What is Worcestershire sauce usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of Worcestershire sauce list, with the share of packs that list each: vinegar (99%), salt (96%), garlic (83%) and molasses (82%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: United States 91 · France 42 · Germany 21 · United Kingdom 14.

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 Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire sauce?

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

What else is Worcestershire sauce called?

French
Sauces Worcestershire
German
Worcestershiresaucen, Worcestersaucen
Italian
Salsa Worcester
Dutch
Worcestershire saus

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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: Worcestershire sauce

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