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Coffee beans on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Coffee beans are a kind of coffee. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 584 products, most often in unsweetened drinks.
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Do coffee beans contain an allergen?
Coffee beans 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 coffee beans vegan?
Yes. Coffee beans are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do coffee beans have on a label?
On European labels they are “café en grains” in French, “Kaffeebohnen” in German and “Granos de café” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- café en grains
- German
- Kaffeebohnen, Kaffee-Bohnen
- Spanish
- Granos de café
- Italian
- chicchi di caffè
- Dutch
- koffiebonen
- Finnish
- kahvipavut
- Croatian
- zrna kave
Which foods contain coffee beans?
Open Food Facts lists coffee beans in the ingredients of 584 products, most often unsweetened drinks, tea and coffee and sweets. Most of them are sold in the United States, Germany and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 229 · Germany 91 · France 78 · Netherlands 51.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where coffee beans turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are coffee beans?
Coffee beans are a kind of coffee.
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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: Coffee beans
- 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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