Ingredient dictionary
Buckwheat grain on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Buckwheat grain 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 255 products, most often in bread.
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Does buckwheat grain contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link buckwheat grain 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 grain vegan?
Yes. Buckwheat grain is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does buckwheat grain have on a label?
On European labels it is “graines de sarrasin” in French, “chicchi di grano saraceno” in Italian and “zrno heljde” in Croatian.
- French
- graines de sarrasin
- Italian
- chicchi di grano saraceno, grano saraceno in chicchi
- Croatian
- zrno heljde
Which foods contain buckwheat grain?
Open Food Facts lists buckwheat grain in the ingredients of 255 products, most often bread, breakfast cereals and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 248 · Belgium 8 · Switzerland 5 · Canada 3.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where buckwheat grain turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is buckwheat grain?
Buckwheat grain is a kind of buckwheat.
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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 grain
- 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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