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Ingredient dictionary

Chocolate sauce on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Chocolate sauce is a kind of chocolate. It is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 160 products, most often in ice cream. Per 100 g: about 277 kcal and 3.8 g protein.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20264 sourcesHow we check

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Does chocolate sauce contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link chocolate sauce to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is chocolate sauce vegan?

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

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.

VegetarianFits youNot meat or fish.

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

What other names does chocolate sauce have on a label?

On European labels it is “sauce au chocolat” in French, “Schokoladensoße” in German and “salsa al cioccolato” in Italian. The other 5 languages are listed below.

French: sauce au chocolat, sauce parfum chocolat
German: Schokoladensoße
Italian: salsa al cioccolato
Dutch: chocoladesaus
Polish: sos czekoladowy
Swedish: chokladsås
Finnish: suklaakastike
Croatian: čokoladni umak

Which foods contain chocolate sauce?

Open Food Facts lists chocolate sauce in the ingredients of 160 products, most often ice cream, dairy desserts and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Ice cream51
Dairy desserts24
Biscuits and cakes17
Sweets3
Pizzas, pies and quiches2
Milk and yoghurt2

Products with it, by country of sale: France 62 · United Kingdom 31 · United States 25 · Germany 7.

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

How many calories are in chocolate sauce?

Chocolate sauce has about 277 kcal per 100 g, with 3.8 g protein, 26 g carbohydrate and 17 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Chocolate sauce” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

277kcal per 100 g

3.8g protein

26g carbohydrate

17g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 24 g, saturated fat 11 g, fibre 3 g, salt 0.13 g, energy 1,160 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11300. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is chocolate sauce?

Chocolate sauce is a kind of chocolate.

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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.

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