Ingredient dictionary
Cocoa paste on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Cocoa paste is a kind of cocoa. It is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 67,058 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does cocoa paste contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link cocoa paste to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is cocoa paste vegan?
Yes. Cocoa paste is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does cocoa paste have on a label?
In English cocoa paste can also read “cocoa mass” or “chocolate liquor”. On European labels it is “pâte de cacao” in French, “Kakaomasse” in German and “Pasta de cacao” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- pâte de cacao, cacao en pâte
- German
- Kakaomasse
- Spanish
- Pasta de cacao, masa del cacao
- Italian
- pasta di cacao, massa di cacao
- Dutch
- cacaomassa, cacao massa
- Portuguese
- pasta de cacau, massa de cacau
- Polish
- miazga kakaowa, masa kakaowa
- Swedish
- kakaomassa
- Danish
- kakaomasse
- Norwegian
- kakaomasse
- Finnish
- kaakaomassa, kaakaomassaa
- Czech
- kakaová hmota
- Hungarian
- kakaómassza
- Romanian
- masă de cacao, masa de cacao
- Croatian
- kakaova masa, kakao masa
- Turkish
- kakao kitlesi
Which foods contain cocoa paste?
Open Food Facts lists cocoa paste or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 67,058 products, most often biscuits and cakes, chocolate and sweets. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 27,085 · United States 13,253 · Germany 9,969 · United Kingdom 4,305.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cocoa paste turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is cocoa paste?
Cocoa paste is a kind of cocoa.
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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 paste
- 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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