Ingredient dictionary
Brown beans on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Brown beans are a kind of pulse. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 74 products, most often in ready meals.
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Do brown beans contain an allergen?
Brown beans 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 brown beans vegan?
Yes. Brown beans are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do brown beans have on a label?
On European labels they are “haricots bruns” in French, “braune Bohnen” in German and “habichuela parda” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.
- French
- haricots bruns
- German
- braune Bohnen
- Spanish
- habichuela parda
- Italian
- fagioli marroni
- Dutch
- bruine bonen
- Danish
- brune bønner
- Norwegian
- brune bønner
- Finnish
- ruskea papu, ruskeat pavut
- Croatian
- smeđi grah
Which foods contain brown beans?
Open Food Facts lists brown beans in the ingredients of 74 products, most often ready meals, soups and beans and pulses. Most of them are sold in the Netherlands, France and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: Netherlands 28 · France 27 · Belgium 8 · Norway 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where brown beans turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are brown beans?
Brown beans are a kind of pulse.
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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.
- Open Food Facts: Brown beans
- 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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