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

Black lentils are one of the lentils. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 192 products, most often in beans and pulses.

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Do black lentils contain an allergen?

Black lentils are not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.

Are black lentils vegan?

Yes. Black lentils are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.

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 do black lentils have on a label?

On European labels they are “lentilles noires” in French, “lenticchie nere” in Italian and “soczewica czarna” in Polish. The other 3 languages are listed below.

French
lentilles noires
Italian
lenticchie nere
Polish
soczewica czarna, soczewicy czarnej
Czech
černá čočka
Hungarian
fekete lencse
Croatian
crna leća

Which foods contain black lentils?

Open Food Facts lists black lentils or a more specific kind of them in the ingredients of 192 products, most often beans and pulses, ready meals and salty and fatty foods. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Beans and pulses60
  • Ready meals47
  • Salty and fatty foods8
  • Savoury snacks8
  • Vegetables7
  • Pasta, rice and flour6

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 57 · France 50 · Germany 36 · United Kingdom 24.

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

What kind of ingredient are black lentils?

Black lentils are one of the lentils.

Kinds of black lentilsBlack lentil flour

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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 lentils
  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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