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

Some kinds of biscuit carry an allergen (milk). Open Food Facts finds it in 2,303 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 477 kcal and 6.9 g protein.

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Does biscuit contain an allergen?

It depends on the kind. Some kinds of biscuit carry an allergen: butter biscuit contains milk. A label must name the allergen, so check which kind it says.

Is biscuit vegan?

Milk allergyHeads upSome kinds contain milk, for example butter biscuit.

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

What other names does biscuit have on a label?

In English biscuit can also read “biscuits”. On European labels it is “biscuits” in French, “Kekse” in German and “galleta” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.

In Englishbiscuits
French
biscuits, biscuits sucrés
German
Kekse, Biskuit
Spanish
galleta
Italian
biscotto, Biscotti
Dutch
biscuits
Portuguese
biscoitos, Biscoito
Polish
herbatnik, herbatniki
Swedish
Kex
Danish
kiks
Norwegian
kjeks
Finnish
keksi, keksit
Hungarian
Kekszek, Keksz
Romanian
biscuiti
Croatian
biskvit, čajno pecivo
Turkish
Bisküvi

Which foods contain biscuit?

Open Food Facts lists biscuit or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 2,303 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and ice cream. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.

  • Biscuits and cakes648
  • Sweets260
  • Ice cream180
  • Chocolate172
  • Dairy desserts73
  • Ready meals71

Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,002 · United States 312 · Germany 214 · Spain 188.

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

How many calories are in biscuit?

Biscuit has about 477 kcal per 100 g, with 6.9 g protein, 65 g carbohydrate and 21 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Biscuit (cookie)” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

477kcal per 100 g
6.9g protein
65g carbohydrate
21g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 25 g, saturated fat 6.1 g, fibre 2 g, salt 0.63 g, energy 2,000 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 24000. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is biscuit?

Kinds of biscuitSpeculoosBiscuit piecesSpeculaasCocoa biscuitButter biscuitBiscuit preparationVanilla flavored pudding powderPlazma biscuitBiscuit flavored pasteBiscuit and chocolate

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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: Biscuit
  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. ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
  5. Wikipedia: Biscuit

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