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Barley malt flavouring on a food label: it may contain gluten

Barley malt flavouring is a kind of flavouring. It may be made from gluten. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 190 products, most often in breakfast cereals.

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Does barley malt flavouring contain an allergen?

Barley malt flavouring may be made from gluten or only taste of it. If it is made from it, the label must say so wherever the allergen lists apply.

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Is barley malt flavouring vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of barley malt flavouring are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads upIt may be made from gluten.

A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.

What other names does barley malt flavouring have on a label?

On European labels it is “arôme de malt d'orge” in French, “Gerstenmalzaroma” in German and “aroma de malta de cebada” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.

French
arôme de malt d'orge
German
Gerstenmalzaroma
Spanish
aroma de malta de cebada
Italian
aroma di malto d'orzo
Swedish
kornmaltarom
Finnish
ohramallasaromi
Croatian
aroma ječmenog slada

Which foods contain barley malt flavouring?

Open Food Facts lists barley malt flavouring in the ingredients of 190 products, most often breakfast cereals, biscuits and cakes and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in France, the United Kingdom and Spain.

  • Breakfast cereals130
  • Biscuits and cakes20
  • Sweetened drinks4
  • Chocolate3
  • Sweets2
  • Fats and spreads1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 146 · United Kingdom 32 · Spain 28 · Belgium 28.

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

What kind of ingredient is barley malt flavouring?

Barley malt flavouring is a kind of flavouring.

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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: Barley malt flavouring
  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

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