Ingredient dictionary
Brown cane sugar on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Brown cane sugar is a kind of brown sugar. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 660 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does brown cane sugar contain an allergen?
Brown cane sugar 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 brown cane sugar vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of brown cane sugar are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. It is vegetarian.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does brown cane sugar have on a label?
On European labels it is “sucre de canne brun” in French, “Brauner Rohrzucker” in German and “Azúcar moreno de caña” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- sucre de canne brun
- German
- Brauner Rohrzucker
- Spanish
- Azúcar moreno de caña
- Dutch
- Bruine rietsuiker
- Polish
- brązowy cukier trzcinowy
- Swedish
- brunt rörsocker
- Danish
- brunt rørsukker
- Czech
- hnědý třtinový cukr
- Hungarian
- barna nádcukor
- Croatian
- smeđi šećer od trske
Which foods contain brown cane sugar?
Open Food Facts lists brown cane sugar or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 660 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and milk and yoghurt. Most of them are sold in the United States, Spain and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 334 · Spain 111 · Germany 95 · France 86.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where brown cane sugar turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is brown cane sugar?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, brown cane sugar sits under brown sugar and cane sugar.
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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 cane sugar
- 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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