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Allergen information

Put all 14 EU allergen categories on your digital menu

Tag every dish once. Guests open the menu from your QR code, hide what they cannot eat, and see what is left — without asking anyone.

14 EU allergen categoriesGuests filter by allergenOne change updates every menu
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Per dish, not per page

Allergens are tagged on the item, so they follow it into every view of your menu.

Live demoSee the allergen filter on a real menuThis pizzeria menu is published on ListoQ. Open the filter, exclude gluten or milk, and watch the list shrink to what is left.Open the demo menu See the allergen filter on a real menu

Why a tagged menu beats a footnote

A list at the bottom of the page puts the work on your guests

Printed menus and PDFs usually carry allergen data as a block of small numbers. It is there, but almost nobody reads it, and staff end up answering the same questions all evening.

Tagged on the dish itself

Each item carries its own allergen categories. The guest sees them next to the dish they are reading, not in a key at the end of the menu.

Guests hide what they cannot eat

The menu has an allergen filter. A guest selects the categories they avoid and every item containing them disappears from the list.

One correction, one place

Change a recipe and you edit the item once. The published menu behind your QR code updates for everyone — no reprint, no new code.

The 14 categories

Every category named in EU food information law

Annex II of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 lists 14 substances that have to be declared. ListoQ ships all of them as structured values you pick from a list, so nobody has to type them.

  • 1 Cereals containing gluten
  • 2 Crustaceans
  • 3 Eggs
  • 4 Fish
  • 5 Peanuts
  • 6 Soybeans
  • 7 Milk
  • 8 Nuts
  • 9 Celery
  • 10 Mustard
  • 11 Sesame
  • 12 Sulphites
  • 13 Lupin
  • 14 Molluscs

Alongside the allergen categories you can mark items as vegetarian or vegan, so guests filtering for one reason usually find the other answer on the same screen.

How it works

From an existing menu to a filterable one

  1. 1

    Bring your menu in

    Add categories and items by hand, or let AI import read an existing PDF, Excel, Word file or photo into a draft you review before anything goes live.

  2. 2

    Tag the allergens

    Open an item and pick its categories from the list of 14. They are structured values, not free text, so the same category always means the same thing.

  3. 3

    Publish when it is right

    Edit the draft as long as you need. Publishing swaps it in behind the QR code and link you already printed.

  4. 4

    Guests filter for themselves

    A guest opens the menu, excludes the categories they avoid, and reads a menu that only shows what they can order.

Worth being clear about

ListoQ gives you the place to record allergens — the information stays yours

Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 requires food businesses to make allergen information available for the 14 categories, and national rules differ on how it has to be presented. ListoQ does not check, source or verify what you enter, and this page is not legal advice. Your kitchen knows the recipes; the menu shows what your kitchen records.

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Questions

Allergens on a ListoQ menu

Yes. The guest menu has an allergen filter: selecting a category hides every item tagged with it. Guests can combine several categories at once.

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Next Step

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