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Cheese flavouring on a food label: it may contain milk

Cheese flavouring is a kind of flavouring. It may be made from milk. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 517 products, most often in savoury snacks.

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Cheese flavouring=milk

Does cheese flavouring contain an allergen?

Cheese flavouring may be made from milk or only taste of it. If it is made from it, the label must say so wherever the allergen lists apply.

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Is cheese flavouring vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of cheese flavouring are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.
Milk allergyHeads upIt may be made from milk.

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What other names does cheese flavouring have on a label?

On European labels it is “Goût fromage” in French, “Käsearoma” in German and “aromas con sabor a queso” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.

French
Goût fromage
German
Käsearoma, Käse Aroma
Spanish
aromas con sabor a queso, aroma queso
Italian
aroma di formaggio
Dutch
kaasaroma
Portuguese
sabor a queijo
Polish
aromat serowy
Swedish
ostsmak
Hungarian
sajt ízesítés
Romanian
aromă de brânză
Croatian
aroma sira

Which foods contain cheese flavouring?

Open Food Facts lists cheese flavouring or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 517 products, most often savoury snacks, ready meals and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom.

  • Savoury snacks108
  • Ready meals59
  • Pasta, rice and flour19
  • Cheese13
  • Dressings and sauces11
  • Meat6

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 289 · Spain 65 · United Kingdom 44 · France 32.

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

What kind of ingredient is cheese flavouring?

Cheese flavouring is a kind of flavouring.

Kinds of cheese flavouringNatural cheese flavouringCheddar flavouring

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Sources

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: Cheese flavouring
  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

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