Ingredient dictionary
Beer on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Beer is a kind of alcohol. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 893 products, most often in alcoholic drinks.
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Does beer contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link beer to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is beer vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of beer are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. It is vegetarian.
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What other names does beer have on a label?
On European labels it is “bière” in French, “Bier” in German and “Cerveza” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- bière
- German
- Bier
- Spanish
- Cerveza
- Italian
- birra
- Dutch
- Bier
- Polish
- piwo
- Danish
- øl
- Finnish
- olut
- Hungarian
- sör
- Croatian
- pivo
Which foods contain beer?
Open Food Facts lists beer or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 893 products, most often alcoholic drinks, sweetened drinks and processed meat. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 361 · United States 282 · Germany 148 · United Kingdom 23.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where beer turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is beer?
Beer is a kind of alcohol.
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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: Beer
- 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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