Ingredient dictionary
Buckwheat flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Buckwheat flour is a kind of buckwheat. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 2,702 products, most often in bread. Per 100 g: about 348 kcal and 12 g protein.
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Does buckwheat flour contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link buckwheat flour to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is buckwheat flour vegan?
Yes. Buckwheat flour is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does buckwheat flour have on a label?
On European labels it is “farine de sarrasin” in French, “Buchweizenmehl” in German and “harina de sarraceno” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.
- French
- farine de sarrasin, farine de blé noir
- German
- Buchweizenmehl
- Spanish
- harina de sarraceno, harina de alforfon
- Italian
- farina di grano saraceno, farina di saraceno
- Dutch
- boekweitmeel
- Portuguese
- farinha de trigo mourisco
- Polish
- mąka gryczana
- Swedish
- bovetemjöl
- Danish
- boghvedemel
- Norwegian
- bokhvetemel
- Finnish
- tattarijauho
- Hungarian
- hajdinaliszt
- Croatian
- heljdino brašno
Which foods contain buckwheat flour?
Open Food Facts lists buckwheat flour or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 2,702 products, most often bread, pasta, rice and flour and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Italy.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,572 · United States 398 · Italy 234 · Germany 156.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where buckwheat flour turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in buckwheat flour?
Buckwheat flour has about 348 kcal per 100 g, with 12 g protein, 68 g carbohydrate and 2.2 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Buckwheat flour” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0 g, saturated fat 0.3 g, fibre 4.2 g, salt 0.04 g, energy 1,470 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 9540. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is buckwheat flour?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, buckwheat flour sits under buckwheat and 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.
- Open Food Facts: Buckwheat flour
- 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
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