Ingredient dictionary
Caraway on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Caraway is a kind of spice. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 3,072 products, most often in bread.
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Does caraway contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link caraway 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 vegan?
Yes. Caraway is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does caraway have on a label?
On European labels it is “carvi” in French, “Kümmel” in German and “alcaravea” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- carvi
- German
- Kümmel
- Spanish
- alcaravea
- Italian
- carvi
- Dutch
- karwij
- Portuguese
- alcaravia
- Polish
- kminek, kminek zwyczajny
- Swedish
- kummin
- Danish
- kommen
- Norwegian
- karve
- Finnish
- kumina
- Czech
- kmín, kmín kořenný
- Hungarian
- fűszerkömény
- Romanian
- chimen
- Croatian
- kim
Which foods contain caraway?
Open Food Facts lists caraway or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 3,072 products, most often bread, ready meals and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in Germany, France and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 753 · France 737 · United States 732 · United Kingdom 252.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where caraway turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is caraway?
Caraway is a kind of spice.
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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
- 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: Caraway
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