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Alcohol vinegar on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Alcohol vinegar is a kind of vinegar. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 12,682 products, most often in dressings and sauces.
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Does alcohol vinegar contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link alcohol vinegar to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is alcohol vinegar vegan?
Yes. Alcohol vinegar is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does alcohol vinegar have on a label?
On European labels it is “vinaigre d’alcool” in French, “Alkoholessig” in German and “vinagre de alcohol” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.
- French
- vinaigre d’alcool
- German
- Alkoholessig
- Spanish
- vinagre de alcohol
- Italian
- aceto di alcool, aceto d alcol
- Dutch
- alcoholazijn
- Portuguese
- vinagre de álcool
- Swedish
- ättiksprit
- Danish
- lagereddike
- Czech
- ocet kvasný lihový
- Hungarian
- alkoholecet
- Romanian
- oțet de alcool, oțet din alcool
- Croatian
- alkoholni ocat
Which foods contain alcohol vinegar?
Open Food Facts lists alcohol vinegar or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 12,682 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and sandwiches. Most of them are sold in France, Spain and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 10,881 · Spain 569 · Belgium 437 · Switzerland 401.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where alcohol vinegar turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is alcohol vinegar?
Alcohol vinegar is a kind of vinegar.
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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.
- Open Food Facts: Alcohol vinegar
- Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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