Eating out or ordering food when you have an allergy
Allergens businesses must tell you about
Businesses must tell you if their food contains any of these 14 allergens:
- celery
- cereals containing gluten (such as wheat, rye, barley and oats)
- crustaceans (such as prawns, crabs and lobsters)
- eggs
- fish
- lupin (including lupin seeds and products made from them, like lupin flour)
- milk
- molluscs (such as mussels and oysters)
- mustard
- nuts, specifically tree nuts (such as almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, brazil nuts, cashews, pecans, pistachios and macadamia nuts)
- peanuts
- sesame
- soybeans
- sulphur dioxide and sulphites (at a concentration of more than ten parts per million)
If you’re allergic to something else, you can ask the business if their food contains it.
This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg).