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Cereal flakes on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Cereal flakes are a kind of cereal. Whether they carry an allergen depends on how they were made. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 427 products, most often in breakfast cereals.
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Do cereal flakes contain an allergen?
It depends on how they were made. Open Food Facts does not link cereal flakes to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen they carry.
Are cereal flakes vegan?
Yes. Cereal flakes are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do cereal flakes have on a label?
On European labels they are “flocons de céréales” in French, “Getreideflocken” in German and “copos de cereales” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.
- French
- flocons de céréales
- German
- Getreideflocken, Kornflockenmischung
- Spanish
- copos de cereales
- Italian
- fiocchi di cereali
- Dutch
- graanvlokken
- Portuguese
- flocos de cereais
- Polish
- płatki zbożowe
- Swedish
- spannmålsflingor
- Finnish
- viljahiutaleet
- Romanian
- fulgi de cereale
- Croatian
- pahuljice od žitarica
Which foods contain cereal flakes?
Open Food Facts lists cereal flakes or a more specific kind of them in the ingredients of 427 products, most often breakfast cereals, biscuits and cakes and bread. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 187 · Germany 80 · Switzerland 66 · Italy 34.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cereal flakes turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are cereal flakes?
Cereal flakes are a kind of cereal.
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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: Cereal flakes
- 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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