Ingredient dictionary
Caramelised sugar on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Caramelised sugar is a kind of sugar. 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 4,419 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does caramelised sugar contain an allergen?
Caramelised sugar 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 caramelised sugar vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of caramelised sugar are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. It is vegetarian.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does caramelised sugar have on a label?
On European labels it is “sucre brun” in French, “Karamellzucker” in German and “azúcar caramelizado” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.
- French
- sucre brun, sucre caramel
- German
- Karamellzucker, karamellisierter Zucker
- Spanish
- azúcar caramelizado
- Italian
- zucchero caramellato, zucchero caramellizzato
- Dutch
- gekarameliseerde suiker, gebrande suiker
- Portuguese
- açúcar caramelizado
- Polish
- cukier karmelizowany, cukier skarmelizowany
- Swedish
- karamelliserat socker
- Danish
- karamelliseret sukker
- Finnish
- karamellisoitu sokeri, karamellisoitua sokeria
- Hungarian
- karamellizált cukor
- Romanian
- zahăr caramelizat
- Croatian
- karamelizirani šećer, karameliziran šećer
Which foods contain caramelised sugar?
Open Food Facts lists caramelised sugar or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 4,419 products, most often biscuits and cakes, ready meals and breakfast cereals. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,923 · Germany 663 · United Kingdom 486 · Switzerland 389.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where caramelised sugar turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is caramelised sugar?
Caramelised sugar is a kind of sugar.
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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: Caramelised sugar
- 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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