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Cane sugar molasses on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Cane sugar molasses is a kind of molasses. 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 1,281 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 300 kcal and 0 g protein.
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Does cane sugar molasses contain an allergen?
Cane sugar molasses 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 cane sugar molasses vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of cane sugar molasses are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. It is vegetarian.
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What other names does cane sugar molasses have on a label?
In English cane sugar molasses can also read “cane molasses” or “molasses of cane sugar”. On European labels it is “mélasse de sucre de canne” in French, “Rohrzuckermelasse” in German and “miel de caña” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.
- French
- mélasse de sucre de canne, mélasse de canne
- German
- Rohrzuckermelasse, Zuckerrohrmelasse
- Spanish
- miel de caña, melaza de cana
- Italian
- melassa di canna da zucchero
- Dutch
- rietsuikermelasse
- Portuguese
- melaço de cana
- Polish
- melasa trzcinowa
- Swedish
- rörsockermelass
- Finnish
- ruokosokerimelassi, ruokomelassi
- Czech
- melasa z třtinového cukru
- Hungarian
- nádcukomelasz
- Croatian
- melasa šećerne trske
Which foods contain cane sugar molasses?
Open Food Facts lists cane sugar molasses in the ingredients of 1,281 products, most often biscuits and cakes, ready meals and sweets. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 427 · United States 400 · France 213 · Germany 83.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cane sugar molasses turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in cane sugar molasses?
Cane sugar molasses has about 300 kcal per 100 g, with 0 g protein, 75 g carbohydrate and 0.1 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Cane molasses” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 75 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 0 g, salt 0.09 g, energy 1,270 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 31067. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is cane sugar molasses?
Cane sugar molasses is a kind of molasses.
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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: Cane sugar molasses
- 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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