We’re updating Bravoora, so forms and sign-in are paused for now. Nothing you saved is lost. Please try again later.

Ingredient dictionary

Chives on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Chives are a kind of onion-family vegetable. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 8,053 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 30 kcal and 2.6 g protein.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20265 sourcesHow we check

Fits you

for a vegan profile

Do chives contain an allergen?

Chives are 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.

Are chives vegan?

Yes. Chives are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.

What other names do chives have on a label?

In English chives can also read “chive”. On European labels they are “ciboulette” in French, “Schnittlauch” in German and “cebollino” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.

In Englishchive

French: ciboulette
German: Schnittlauch
Spanish: cebollino, cebollinos
Italian: cippolina, aglio d'india
Dutch: bieslook
Portuguese: cebolinho
Polish: szczypior, czosnek szczypiorek
Swedish: gräslök, gräslöks
Danish: purløg
Norwegian: grasløk
Finnish: ruohosipuli, ruohosipulia
Czech: pažitka, pažitka pobřežní
Hungarian: metélőhagyma
Romanian: arpagic
Croatian: vlasac
Turkish: yaprak soğanı

Which foods contain chives?

Open Food Facts lists chives or a more specific kind of them in the ingredients of 8,053 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and cheese. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.

Ready meals1,820
Dressings and sauces585
Cheese561
Pasta, rice and flour519
Savoury snacks267
Fish and seafood256

Products with it, by country of sale: France 3,684 · United States 1,383 · Germany 1,247 · United Kingdom 513.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where chives turn up, not how much of the market they are.

How many calories are in chives?

Chives have about 30 kcal per 100 g, with 2.6 g protein, 2.1 g carbohydrate and 0.5 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Chive or spring onion, fresh” (the closest food in the table) in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

30kcal per 100 g

2.6g protein

2.1g carbohydrate

0.5g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 1.8 g, saturated fat 0.2 g, fibre 3.2 g, salt 0.03 g, energy 124 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11003 (the closest food in the table). A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient are chives?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, chives sit under onion-family vegetable and root vegetable.

Kinds of chivesChive seasoningFresh chives

Bravoora reads this ingredient for everyone you shop for: an allergy or intolerance, a vegan or vegetarian diet, a calorie or protein goal, and the labels on supplements and skincare too. Build a profile · For dietitians, doctors and trainers

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.

Contains information from Open Food Facts, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL). Read the licence · Download this dictionary’s data · How we check

Create a website profile with the things you avoid and the people you check for.

Build my profile

Save and edit your profile on this website. App transfer is not available yet.