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Cassia on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Cassia is a kind of cinnamon. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 544 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does cassia contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link cassia to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is cassia vegan?

Yes. Cassia is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does cassia have on a label?

In English cassia can also read “chinese cinnamon”. On European labels it is “cannelle de Chine” in French, “Zimtkassie” in German and “cassie” in Dutch. The other 7 languages are listed below.

In Englishchinese cinnamon
French
cannelle de Chine, cannelier de Chine
German
Zimtkassie
Dutch
cassie
Portuguese
cássia-chinesa
Polish
cynamonowiec wonny
Swedish
kassiakanel
Norwegian
kassiakanel
Finnish
kassiakaneli
Czech
skořicovník čínský
Croatian
kineskog cimeta

Which foods contain cassia?

Open Food Facts lists cassia in the ingredients of 544 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and France.

  • Ready meals72
  • Dressings and sauces69
  • Biscuits and cakes38
  • Unsweetened drinks26
  • Breakfast cereals13
  • Sweetened drinks11

Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 317 · United States 82 · France 72 · Australia 30.

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

What kind of ingredient is cassia?

Cassia is a kind of cinnamon.

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Cassia
  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
  4. Wikipedia: Cinnamomum cassia

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