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Bamboo shoot on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Bamboo shoot is a kind of bamboo. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 734 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does bamboo shoot contain an allergen?

Bamboo shoot 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 vegan?

Yes. Bamboo shoot is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does bamboo shoot have on a label?

In English bamboo shoot can also read “bamboo sprouts”. On European labels it is “pousse de bambou” in French, “Bambussprossen” in German and “brotes de bambú” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.

In Englishbamboo sprouts
French
pousse de bambou, pousses de bambou
German
Bambussprossen, Bambusschoessling
Spanish
brotes de bambú
Italian
germoglio di bambù, germogli di bambù
Dutch
bamboescheuten, bamboescheut
Portuguese
rebento de bambu, rebentos de bambu
Polish
pęd bambusa, pędy bambusa
Swedish
bambuskott
Norwegian
bambusskudd
Finnish
bambunverso, bambunversoja
Czech
bambusový výhonek
Hungarian
bambuszrügy
Croatian
izdanak bambusa

Which foods contain bamboo shoot?

Open Food Facts lists bamboo shoot in the ingredients of 734 products, most often ready meals, vegetables and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.

  • Ready meals241
  • Vegetables115
  • Dressings and sauces64
  • Pasta, rice and flour37
  • Savoury snacks15
  • Poultry8

Products with it, by country of sale: France 264 · United States 156 · Germany 155 · United Kingdom 48.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where bamboo shoot turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is bamboo shoot?

Bamboo shoot is a kind of bamboo.

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Bamboo shoot
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  4. Wikipedia: Bamboo shoot

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