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Chicory extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Chicory extract is a kind of chicory. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 192 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does chicory extract contain an allergen?
Chicory extract 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 chicory extract vegan?
Yes. Chicory extract is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does chicory extract have on a label?
In English chicory extract can also read “extract of chicory”. On European labels it is “extrait de chicorée” in French, “Zichorien-Extrakt” in German and “extracto de achicoria” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.
- French
- extrait de chicorée, extraits de chicorée
- German
- Zichorien-Extrakt
- Spanish
- extracto de achicoria
- Italian
- estratto di cicoria, Estratti di cicoria
- Dutch
- cichorei-extract, chicorei extract
- Portuguese
- extrato de chicória, extracto de chicória
- Polish
- ekstrakt z cykorii
- Finnish
- sikuriuute
- Croatian
- ekstrakt cikorije
Which foods contain chicory extract?
Open Food Facts lists chicory extract in the ingredients of 192 products, most often ready meals, biscuits and cakes and poultry. Most of them are sold in France, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 119 · United Kingdom 30 · Switzerland 27 · United States 17.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where chicory extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is chicory extract?
Chicory extract is a kind of chicory.
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- Open Food Facts: Chicory extract
- 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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