Ingredient dictionary
Asafoetida on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Asafoetida is a kind of spice. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 334 products, most often in salty and fatty foods.
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Does asafoetida contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link asafoetida to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is asafoetida vegan?
Yes. Asafoetida is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does asafoetida have on a label?
In English asafoetida can also read “hing”. On European labels it is “ase fétide” in French, “Teufelsdreck” in German and “asafétida” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.
- French
- ase fétide
- German
- Teufelsdreck
- Spanish
- asafétida
- Italian
- assafetida
- Dutch
- duivelsdrek
- Portuguese
- assafétida
- Polish
- asafetyda, czarcie łajno
- Swedish
- dyvelsträck
- Finnish
- hajupihka, pirunpihka
- Hungarian
- bűzös husáng, bűzös aszat
- Croatian
- asafetida
- Turkish
- şeytantersi, hıthıt
Which foods contain asafoetida?
Open Food Facts lists asafoetida in the ingredients of 334 products, most often salty and fatty foods, ready meals and savoury snacks. Most of them are sold in India, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: India 142 · United States 70 · United Kingdom 61 · France 26.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where asafoetida turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is asafoetida?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, asafoetida sits under spice and tree gum.
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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: Asafoetida
- 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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