Ingredient dictionary
Caraway seed on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Caraway seed is a kind of caraway. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 846 products, most often in bread.
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Does caraway seed contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link caraway seed to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is caraway seed vegan?
Yes. Caraway seed is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does caraway seed have on a label?
On European labels it is “graine de carvi” in French, “Kümmelsamen” in German and “semilla de alcaravea” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.
- French
- graine de carvi, graines de carvi
- German
- Kümmelsamen
- Spanish
- semilla de alcaravea, semillas de alcaravea
- Italian
- seme di cumino, seme di carvi
- Dutch
- karwijzaad
- Portuguese
- semente de cominho, semente de alcaravia
- Polish
- nasiona kminku
- Swedish
- kumminfrön
- Danish
- kommenfrø
- Romanian
- semințe de chimen, seminte de chimen
- Croatian
- sjeme kima, sjemenke kima
Which foods contain caraway seed?
Open Food Facts lists caraway seed in the ingredients of 846 products, most often bread, biscuits and cakes and ready meals. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 482 · United Kingdom 119 · Netherlands 114 · France 61.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where caraway seed turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is caraway seed?
Caraway seed is a kind of caraway.
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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: Caraway seed
- 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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