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Bifidus on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Bifidus is one of the lactic ferments. 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 4,039 products, most often in milk and yoghurt.

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Does bifidus contain an allergen?

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

Is bifidus vegan?

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

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.
VegetarianFits youNot meat or fish.

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What other names does bifidus have on a label?

In English bifidus can also read “bifidus culture”. On European labels it is “culture de bifidus” in French, “Bifidobacterium” in Spanish and “Bifidobacterium” in Italian. The other 7 languages are listed below.

In Englishbifidus culture
French
culture de bifidus, bifidobactérium
Spanish
Bifidobacterium, bifidobacterias
Italian
Bifidobacterium
Dutch
Bifidobacterium
Polish
bifidobacterium sp, bifidobacterium
Swedish
bifidobacterium, bifidobacterium sp
Finnish
bifidus-viljelmä
Hungarian
bifidusz, bifidusz kultúra
Croatian
bifidobacterium, bifidobacterium BB-12
Turkish
Bifido bakterisi

Which foods contain bifidus?

Open Food Facts lists bifidus or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 4,039 products, most often milk and yoghurt, dairy desserts and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.

  • Milk and yoghurt2,466
  • Dairy desserts219
  • Sweetened drinks122
  • Unsweetened drinks101
  • Sweets97
  • Baby milks38

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2,184 · France 612 · United Kingdom 187 · Spain 185.

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

What kind of ingredient is bifidus?

Bifidus is one of the lactic ferments.

Kinds of bifidusBifidobacterium lactisBifidus actiregularisBifidobacterium bifidumBifidobacterium longum

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Sources

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: Bifidus
  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: Bifidobacterium

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