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Ingredient dictionary

Cheese sauce on a food label: it contains milk

Cheese sauce is a kind of sauce. It contains milk, so the allergen labelling rules apply. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 703 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 118 kcal and 3.1 g protein.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20267 sourcesHow we check

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Cheese sauce=milk

Does cheese sauce contain an allergen?

Yes. Cheese sauce contains milk: labels in the US, the UK, Europe and the Gulf must declare it. It is made to a recipe, so any other allergen in it must be named on the label too.

Allergen	US	UK and Europe	Gulf
Milk	Required	RequiredLactose included	RequiredLactose included

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Is cheese sauce vegan?

No. Cheese sauce is not vegan: it is made from milk. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it is made from milk.

VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.

Milk allergyNot for youIt contains milk.

A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.

What other names does cheese sauce have on a label?

On European labels it is “sauce au fromage” in French, “Käsesoße” in German and “salsa de queso” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.

French: sauce au fromage
German: Käsesoße
Spanish: salsa de queso
Italian: salsa al formaggio
Dutch: kaassaus
Swedish: ostsås
Finnish: juustokastike
Croatian: umak od sira

Which foods contain cheese sauce?

Open Food Facts lists cheese sauce in the ingredients of 703 products, most often ready meals, pasta, rice and flour and pizzas, pies and quiches. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Canada.

Ready meals290
Pasta, rice and flour32
Pizzas, pies and quiches16
Sandwiches12
Vegetables11
Bread4

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 595 · France 25 · Canada 23 · United Kingdom 17.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cheese sauce turns up, not how much of the market it is.

How many calories are in cheese sauce?

Cheese sauce has about 118 kcal per 100 g, with 3.1 g protein, 4.2 g carbohydrate and 9.5 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Cheese sauce for risotto or pasta, prepacked” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

118kcal per 100 g

3.1g protein

4.2g carbohydrate

9.5g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 0.7 g, saturated fat 7 g, fibre 1.4 g, salt 1.38 g, energy 489 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11189. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is cheese sauce?

Cheese sauce is a kind of sauce.

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An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.

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