Guide
Allergens in gravy granules
Gravy granules usually contain wheat, and often soya and celery. Some contain milk. A gluten-free gravy mix is a different SKU. The roast dinner box or pie you pack has to follow the gravy you actually poured.
Reviewed against official guidance.SourcesNot legal advice.
The usual pattern
Granules are starch, wheat flour, salt, colour and flavour. Yeast extract and celery are common. Onion gravy and meat gravy from the same range are not interchangeable.
What to check in gravy granules
| What you see | What it means on a PPDS label |
|---|---|
| Wheat flour | Cereals containing gluten |
| Soya | Soya |
| Celery extract | Celery |
| Some creamy gravies | Milk |
How to write it on the label
PPDS food needs the name of the food and a full ingredients list, with the 14 allergens emphasised every time they appear. The Food Standards Agency’s PPDS guidance is the practical reference. A typical ingredients fragment looks like this — yours must follow the specification of the product you actually use.
Example fragment
Wheat flour, salt, maize starch, flavourings, soya, celery.
Where it shows up
Pie fillings, roast boxes, sausage casseroles and mashed-potato pots.
Gluten-free pie, ordinary gravy
The pastry can be gluten-free and the gravy still wheat. The finished pack is not gluten-free.
A jus reduced from meat bones is not granules. If you add a cube, the cube’s allergens join the jus.
Specification first
Brands differ. Treat this page as the usual pattern, then match the label to the tub, bag or recipe in front of you.
Questions
Does gravy always contain gluten?
Do I list the granules or the ingredients inside them?
Official sources
Everything on this page traces back to these. Where they and we disagree, they are right — tell us and we'll fix it.
- Introduction to allergen labelling for PPDS foodFood Standards Agency / GOV.UK
- Labelling guidance for prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) food productsFood Standards Agency / GOV.UK
- Food allergen labelling and information requirements technical guidanceFood Standards Agency / GOV.UK