Ingredo.app for egg allergy
Turn on Egg allergy and Ingredo.app hard-blocks every declared source on any food you scan, citing the source behind each flag. Because we cannot detect trace amounts or cross-contamination, the physical label stays authoritative.
Allergen profiles are a hard block, not a soft caution — a declared source turns the verdict to "avoid" outright, rather than nudging the score.
Where an ingredient cannot be verified, the result degrades to "couldn’t verify — check the label". A safety flag never silently becomes a pass.
What Ingredo.app flags for egg allergy
Declared sources are a hard block; anything we cannot verify is a caution, never a pass.
Hard block
- Egg: egg white, egg yolk, dried egg
Check the label
- Ingredients of uncertain origin — flagged rather than passed
- "May contain" cross-contamination warnings — always verify on the physical label
Good match
- Products with no declared source and no cross-contamination warning
How to use it
Declared sources are a hard block; anything we cannot verify is a caution, never a pass.
Turn on Egg allergy
Enable the profile once during onboarding or in settings.
Scan the product
Point your camera at any food barcode.
Get your verdict
Avoid, check with caution, or good match — with the ingredient cited.
Where it hides
Where egg most often turns up unexpectedly.
Albumin, ovalbumin and lysozyme — lysozyme is used in some hard cheeses
Mayonnaise, meringue, fresh pasta, brioche and many baked goods
Egg wash on pastry, which the ingredient list does not always spell out
Common questions
Egg, egg white and yolk, dried egg, albumen, ovalbumin, lysozyme and E1105 are recognised as egg, and so is any ingredient whose wording names egg, such as "egg lecithin" or "lysozyme (egg)". EU law requires egg to be named on the label, and that is what the app reads. A name it does not know — plain "albumin", for example, which can also come from milk — is not treated as egg, so check the label.
Usually soy, but it can be egg-derived. If it is, EU law requires the label to say so — "egg lecithin" or "lecithin (egg)" — and the app reads that as egg. Plain "lecithin" is not treated as egg.
What Ingredo.app flags for this profile
Examples from our ingredient reference. Open any entry for the full explanation and its sources.
Avoid
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