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Cocoa powder on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Cocoa powder is a kind of cocoa. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 44,896 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 387 kcal and 22 g protein.
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Does cocoa powder contain an allergen?
Cocoa powder 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 powder vegan?
Yes. Cocoa powder is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does cocoa powder have on a label?
On European labels it is “poudre de cacao” in French, “Kakaopulver” in German and “cacao en polvo” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- poudre de cacao, cacao en poudre
- German
- Kakaopulver
- Spanish
- cacao en polvo
- Italian
- cacao in polvere
- Dutch
- cacaopoeder
- Portuguese
- cacau em pó
- Polish
- kakao w proszku, Proszek kakaowy
- Swedish
- kakaopulver
- Danish
- Kakaopulver
- Norwegian
- kakaopulver
- Finnish
- kaakaojauhe, kaakaojauhetta
- Czech
- Kakaový prášek
- Hungarian
- kakaópor
- Romanian
- pudră de cacao, pudra de cacao
- Turkish
- kakao tozu
Which foods contain cocoa powder?
Open Food Facts lists cocoa powder or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 44,896 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and breakfast cereals. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 15,881 · United States 9,598 · Germany 5,300 · United Kingdom 2,731.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cocoa powder turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in cocoa powder?
Cocoa powder has about 387 kcal per 100 g, with 22 g protein, 12 g carbohydrate and 21 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Cocoa powder, without sugar, powder, instant” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0.9 g, saturated fat 12 g, fibre 30 g, salt 0.11 g, energy 1,610 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 18100. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is cocoa powder?
Cocoa powder 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 powder
- 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
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