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Cocoa mass and cocoa butter on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Cocoa mass and cocoa butter is a kind of cocoa butter. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 193 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does cocoa mass and cocoa butter contain an allergen?
Cocoa mass and cocoa butter 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 cocoa mass and cocoa butter vegan?
Yes. Cocoa mass and cocoa butter is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does cocoa mass and cocoa butter have on a label?
On European labels it is “pâte et beurre de cacao” in French, “Kakaomasse und Kakaobutter” in German and “pasta de cacao y manteca de cacao” in Spanish. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- pâte et beurre de cacao, pâte de cacao et beurre de cacao
- German
- Kakaomasse und Kakaobutter
- Spanish
- pasta de cacao y manteca de cacao
- Italian
- massa di cacao e burro di cacao
- Finnish
- kaakaomassa ja -voi
- Croatian
- kakao masu i kakao maslac
Which foods contain cocoa mass and cocoa butter?
Open Food Facts lists cocoa mass and cocoa butter or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 193 products, most often biscuits and cakes, chocolate and ice cream. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Austria.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 128 · Germany 40 · Austria 9 · Italy 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cocoa mass and cocoa butter turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is cocoa mass and cocoa butter?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, cocoa mass and cocoa butter sits under cocoa butter and cocoa paste.
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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: Cocoa mass and cocoa butter
- 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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