Ingredient dictionary
Chickpea on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Chickpea is a kind of legume. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 12,379 products, most often in dressings and sauces. Per 100 g: about 122 kcal and 6.7 g protein.
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Does chickpea contain an allergen?
Chickpea 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 vegan?
Yes. Chickpea is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does chickpea have on a label?
In English chickpea can also read “chickpeas”, “garbanzo” or “garbanzo beans”. On European labels it is “pois chiche” in French, “Kichererbse” in German and “garbanzo” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- pois chiche, pois chiches
- German
- Kichererbse, Kichererbsen
- Spanish
- garbanzo, garbanzos
- Italian
- cece, ceci
- Dutch
- kikkererwt, kikkererwten
- Portuguese
- grão-de-bico, grãos-de-bico
- Polish
- ciecierzyca, ciecierzycy
- Swedish
- kikärt, kikärter
- Danish
- kikært, kikærter
- Norwegian
- kikert
- Finnish
- kikherne, kahviherne
- Czech
- cizrna beraní
- Hungarian
- csicseriborsó
- Romanian
- năut, năut boabe
- Croatian
- slanutak
- Turkish
- nohut
Which foods contain chickpea?
Open Food Facts lists chickpea or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 12,379 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and beans and pulses. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 3,828 · France 2,978 · United Kingdom 1,509 · Germany 1,140.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where chickpea turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in chickpea?
Chickpea has about 122 kcal per 100 g, with 6.7 g protein, 15 g carbohydrate and 2.7 g fat. The figures are for food 20532 in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0.5 g, saturated fat 0.3 g, fibre 5.5 g, salt 0.54 g, energy 511 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 20532. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is chickpea?
Chickpea is a kind of legume.
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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: Chickpea
- 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
- Wikipedia: Chickpea
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