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Coconut flakes on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Coconut flakes are a kind of coconut. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 1,066 products, most often in breakfast cereals.
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Do coconut flakes contain an allergen?
Coconut flakes are 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.
Are coconut flakes vegan?
Yes. Coconut flakes are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do coconut flakes have on a label?
On European labels they are “flocons de coco” in French, “Kokosflocken” in German and “Hojuelas de coco” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- flocons de coco, flocons de noix de coco
- German
- Kokosflocken
- Spanish
- Hojuelas de coco, coco en escamas
- Italian
- fiocchi di cocco, cocco in scaglie
- Dutch
- Kokosschilfers
- Portuguese
- coco ralado
- Polish
- wiórki kokosowe, wiórki z kokosa
- Swedish
- kokosflinga, kokosflingor
- Finnish
- kookoshiutale, kookoshiutaleet
- Croatian
- kokosove pahuljice
Which foods contain coconut flakes?
Open Food Facts lists coconut flakes in the ingredients of 1,066 products, most often breakfast cereals, biscuits and cakes and sweets. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 307 · France 174 · Germany 150 · Switzerland 104.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where coconut flakes turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are coconut flakes?
Coconut flakes are a kind of coconut.
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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: Coconut flakes
- 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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