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Ingredient dictionary

Buckwheat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Buckwheat is a kind of cereal. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 5,667 products, most often in pasta, rice and flour.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20264 sourcesHow we check

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Does buckwheat contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link buckwheat 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 vegan?

Yes. Buckwheat is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.

What other names does buckwheat have on a label?

On European labels it is “sarrasin” in French, “Buchweizen” in German and “sarraceno” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.

French: sarrasin
German: Buchweizen
Spanish: sarraceno, trigo sarraceno
Italian: grano saraceno
Dutch: boekweit
Portuguese: trigo mourisco
Polish: gryka, gryka zwyczajna
Swedish: bovete
Danish: boghvede
Norwegian: bokhvete
Finnish: tattari, viljatar
Czech: pohanka
Hungarian: hajdina
Romanian: hrișcă
Croatian: heljda
Turkish: karabuğday

Which foods contain buckwheat?

Open Food Facts lists buckwheat or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 5,667 products, most often pasta, rice and flour, bread and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.

Pasta, rice and flour827
Bread789
Biscuits and cakes709
Breakfast cereals517
Ready meals258
Savoury snacks141

Products with it, by country of sale: France 2,845 · United States 1,150 · Germany 386 · Italy 355.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where buckwheat turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is buckwheat?

Buckwheat is a kind of cereal.

Kinds of buckwheatBuckwheat flour Buckwheat grain Buckwheat flakes Wholemeal buckwheat Kasha Sprouted buckwheat Buckwheat gritPuffed buckwheatBuckwheat huskRehydrated nuckwheat

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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.

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