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Black truffle on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Black truffle is a kind of truffle. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 245 products, most often in dressings and sauces.
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Does black truffle contain an allergen?
Black truffle is 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.
Is black truffle vegan?
Yes. Black truffle is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does black truffle have on a label?
On European labels it is “truffe noire” in French, “Schwarze Trüffel” in German and “trufa negra” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.
- French
- truffe noire, truffes noires
- German
- Schwarze Trüffel, Perigord-Trüffel
- Spanish
- trufa negra
- Italian
- Tartufo nero
- Dutch
- zwarte truffel
- Polish
- trufla czarnozarodnikowa
- Swedish
- Perigordtryffel
- Finnish
- mustatryffeli
- Hungarian
- Francia szarvasgomba
- Romanian
- Trufă neagră franceză
- Croatian
- crni tartuf
- Turkish
- Perigord trüfü
Which foods contain black truffle?
Open Food Facts lists black truffle in the ingredients of 245 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and cheese. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 108 · United States 90 · Germany 12 · Spain 12.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where black truffle turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is black truffle?
Black truffle is a kind of truffle.
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- Open Food Facts: Black truffle
- 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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