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Chickpea flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Chickpea flour is a kind of chickpea. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 3,244 products, most often in savoury snacks.

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Does chickpea flour contain an allergen?

Chickpea flour is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.

Is chickpea flour vegan?

Yes. Chickpea flour 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 chickpea flour have on a label?

In English chickpea flour can also read “chick pea flour”, “gram flour” or “garbanzo bean flour”. On European labels it is “farine de pois chiche” in French, “Kichererbsenmehl” in German and “harina de garbanzo” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.

In Englishchick pea flourgram flourgarbanzo bean flourbesan
French
farine de pois chiche, farine de pois chiches
German
Kichererbsenmehl
Spanish
harina de garbanzo
Italian
farina di ceci
Dutch
kikkererwtenmeel, besan
Polish
mąka z ciecierzycy
Swedish
kikärtsmjöl
Danish
kikærtemel
Finnish
kikhernejauho
Czech
cizrnová mouka
Romanian
făină de năut
Croatian
brašno od slanutka

Which foods contain chickpea flour?

Open Food Facts lists chickpea flour in the ingredients of 3,244 products, most often savoury snacks, pasta, rice and flour and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

  • Savoury snacks268
  • Pasta, rice and flour226
  • Biscuits and cakes194
  • Ready meals172
  • Bread103
  • Processed meat91

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 920 · United Kingdom 752 · France 579 · Germany 291.

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

What kind of ingredient is chickpea flour?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, chickpea flour sits under chickpea and flour.

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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: Chickpea flour
  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: Gram flour

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