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Bamboo fibre on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Bamboo fibre is a kind of vegetable fiber. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,533 products, most often in bread.
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Does bamboo fibre contain an allergen?
Bamboo fibre is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.
Is bamboo fibre vegan?
Yes. Bamboo fibre is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does bamboo fibre have on a label?
On European labels it is “fibre de bambou” in French, “Bambusfaser” in German and “Fibra de bambú” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- fibre de bambou, fibres de bambou
- German
- Bambusfaser, Bambusfasern
- Spanish
- Fibra de bambú
- Italian
- fibra di bambù, fibre di bambù
- Dutch
- bamboevezel, bamboevezels
- Polish
- błonnik bambusowy, błonnik roślinny bambusowy
- Swedish
- bambufiber
- Danish
- bambusfibre
- Finnish
- bambukuitu
- Croatian
- vlakna bambusa
Which foods contain bamboo fibre?
Open Food Facts lists bamboo fibre or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,533 products, most often bread, meat and processed meat. Most of them are sold in France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 670 · United Kingdom 253 · United States 140 · Belgium 94.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where bamboo fibre turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is bamboo fibre?
Bamboo fibre is a kind of vegetable fiber.
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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: Bamboo fibre
- 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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