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Black carrot on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Black carrot is a kind of carrot. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 4,717 products, most often in sweets.

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Does black carrot contain an allergen?

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

Is black carrot vegan?

Yes. Black carrot is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does black carrot have on a label?

In English black carrot can also read “black carrots”. On European labels it is “carotte noire” in French, “schwarze Karotte” in German and “Zanahorias negras” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.

In Englishblack carrots
French
carotte noire
German
schwarze Karotte
Spanish
Zanahorias negras
Italian
carote nere
Dutch
zwarte wortel
Polish
czarna marchew, czarnej marchwi
Swedish
svart morot, svart morots
Norwegian
sort gulrot
Finnish
Musta porkkana, mustaporkkana
Croatian
crna mrkva, crne mrkve

Which foods contain black carrot?

Open Food Facts lists black carrot or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 4,717 products, most often sweets, milk and yoghurt and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.

  • Sweets1,108
  • Milk and yoghurt645
  • Sweetened drinks509
  • Biscuits and cakes219
  • Dairy desserts161
  • Ice cream155

Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,556 · United States 1,032 · Germany 522 · United Kingdom 466.

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

What kind of ingredient is black carrot?

Black carrot is a kind of carrot.

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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: Black carrot
  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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