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Bamboo shoot fiber on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Bamboo shoot fiber is a kind of bamboo fibre. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 92 products, most often in pizzas, pies and quiches.
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Does bamboo shoot fiber contain an allergen?
Bamboo shoot fiber 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 shoot fiber vegan?
Yes. Bamboo shoot fiber is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does bamboo shoot fiber have on a label?
On European labels it is “fibres de pousses de bambou” in French, “bamboo fibre” in German and “fibra di germoglio di bambù” in Italian. The other 2 languages are listed below.
- French
- fibres de pousses de bambou
- German
- bamboo fibre
- Italian
- fibra di germoglio di bambù
- Dutch
- vezels van bamboescheuten
- Croatian
- vlakna izdanaka bambusa
Which foods contain bamboo shoot fiber?
Open Food Facts lists bamboo shoot fiber in the ingredients of 92 products, most often pizzas, pies and quiches, meat and ready meals. Most of them are sold in France, Switzerland and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 89 · Switzerland 2 · Belgium 2 · Deutschland 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where bamboo shoot fiber turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is bamboo shoot fiber?
Bamboo shoot fiber is a kind of bamboo fibre.
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- Open Food Facts: Bamboo shoot fiber
- 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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