Ingredient dictionary
Cake on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Cake is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. Open Food Facts finds it in 747 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
By Bravoora teamUpdated Sources checked 4 sourcesHow we check
Does cake contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link cake to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
What other names does cake have on a label?
In English cake can also read “cakes”. On European labels it is “gâteaux” in French, “Kuchen” in German and “Pasteles” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- gâteaux, Gâteau
- German
- Kuchen, Torte
- Spanish
- Pasteles, pastel
- Italian
- torta
- Dutch
- taart, taarten
- Portuguese
- bolo, bolos
- Polish
- Ciasto, ciasta
- Swedish
- Tårta
- Danish
- kage
- Norwegian
- kake
- Finnish
- kakku
- Czech
- buchta
- Hungarian
- Sütemények, sütemény
- Romanian
- Prăjitură
- Croatian
- pita, kolač
- Turkish
- Kek
Which foods contain cake?
Open Food Facts lists cake or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 747 products, most often biscuits and cakes, milk and yoghurt and dairy desserts. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 476 · France 97 · Germany 36 · Spain 23.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cake turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is cake?
Bravoora reads this ingredient for everyone you shop for: an allergy or intolerance, a vegan or vegetarian diet, a calorie or protein goal, and the labels on supplements and skincare too. Build a profile · For dietitians, doctors and trainers
Sources
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: Cake
- 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
- Wikipedia: Cake
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