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Ingredient dictionary

Beef broth on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Beef broth is a kind of beef. It is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 2,576 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 240 kcal and 10 g protein.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20264 sourcesHow we check

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Does beef broth contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link beef broth to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is beef broth vegan?

No. Beef broth is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it comes from an animal.

VegetarianNot for youIt comes from meat or another slaughter product.

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

What other names does beef broth have on a label?

In English beef broth can also read “beef stock”. On European labels it is “bouillon de bœuf” in French, “Rinderbrühe” in German and “Caldo de carne de vaca” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.

In Englishbeef stock

French: bouillon de bœuf, bouillon de boeuf
German: Rinderbrühe, Rindfleischbouillon
Spanish: Caldo de carne de vaca
Italian: brodo di manzo
Dutch: runderbuillon
Polish: bulion wołowy
Swedish: nötköttsbuljong
Finnish: naudanlihaliemi
Czech: hovězí vývar
Croatian: goveđa juha

Which foods contain beef broth?

Open Food Facts lists beef broth or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 2,576 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and meat. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

Ready meals822
Dressings and sauces168
Meat149
Processed meat93
Pizzas, pies and quiches35
Pasta, rice and flour29

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2,011 · United Kingdom 245 · France 136 · Germany 63.

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

How many calories are in beef broth?

Beef broth has about 240 kcal per 100 g, with 10 g protein, 20 g carbohydrate and 13 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Broth, stock or bouillon, beef, dehydrated” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

240kcal per 100 g

10g protein

20g carbohydrate

13g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 4 g, saturated fat 7 g, fibre 0.7 g, salt 33 g, energy 1,000 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11001. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is beef broth?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, beef broth sits under beef and broth.

Kinds of beef brothDehydrated beef stock

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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.

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