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Caramel sauce on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Caramel sauce is a kind of sauce. Some kinds of caramel sauce carry an allergen (milk). Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 391 products, most often in ice cream.

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Does caramel sauce contain an allergen?

It depends on the kind. Some kinds of caramel sauce carry an allergen: salted butter caramel sauce contains milk. A label must name the allergen, so check which kind it says.

Is caramel sauce vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of caramel sauce are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.
Milk allergyHeads upSome kinds contain milk, for example salted butter caramel sauce.

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What other names does caramel sauce have on a label?

On European labels it is “sauce caramel” in French, “Caramelsauce” in German and “salsa de caramelo” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.

French
sauce caramel
German
Caramelsauce, Karamellsauce
Spanish
salsa de caramelo
Italian
salsa al caramello
Dutch
caramelsaus, karamelsaus
Portuguese
molho de caramelo
Polish
sos karmelowy, sosu karmelowego
Swedish
kolasås
Finnish
karamellikastike
Croatian
karamel umak

Which foods contain caramel sauce?

Open Food Facts lists caramel sauce or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 391 products, most often ice cream, biscuits and cakes and dairy desserts. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.

  • Ice cream116
  • Biscuits and cakes40
  • Dairy desserts24
  • Sweets14
  • Milk and yoghurt11
  • Ready meals9

Products with it, by country of sale: France 107 · United States 98 · United Kingdom 61 · Germany 35.

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

What kind of ingredient is caramel sauce?

Caramel sauce is a kind of sauce.

Kinds of caramel sauceSalted butter caramel sauce

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Caramel sauce
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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