Ingredient dictionary
Coarse salt on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Coarse salt is a kind of salt. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 52 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does coarse salt contain an allergen?
Coarse salt 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 coarse salt vegan?
Yes. Coarse salt is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does coarse salt have on a label?
On European labels it is “gros sel” in French and “grovsalt” in Swedish.
- French
- gros sel
- Swedish
- grovsalt
Which foods contain coarse salt?
Open Food Facts lists coarse salt or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 52 products, most often biscuits and cakes, bread and breakfast cereals. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Denmark.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 37 · France 10 · Denmark 7 · Germany 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where coarse salt turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is coarse salt?
Coarse salt is a kind of salt.
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- Open Food Facts: Coarse salt
- 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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