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Blue poppy seed on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Blue poppy seed is a kind of poppyseed. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 162 products, most often in bread.
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Does blue poppy seed contain an allergen?
Blue poppy seed 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 blue poppy seed vegan?
Yes. Blue poppy seed is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does blue poppy seed have on a label?
On European labels it is “graine de pavot bleu” in French, “Blaumohnsamen” in German and “semi di papavero blu” in Italian. One more language is listed below.
- French
- graine de pavot bleu, graines de pavot bleu
- German
- Blaumohnsamen
- Italian
- semi di papavero blu
- Croatian
- plavi mak
Which foods contain blue poppy seed?
Open Food Facts lists blue poppy seed in the ingredients of 162 products, most often bread, ready meals and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 148 · United States 9 · Switzerland 5 · Reunion 4.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where blue poppy seed turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is blue poppy seed?
Blue poppy seed is a kind of poppyseed.
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- Open Food Facts: Blue poppy seed
- 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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