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Coffee powder on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Coffee powder is a kind of coffee. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 500 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does coffee powder contain an allergen?
Coffee 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 coffee powder vegan?
Yes. Coffee powder is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does coffee powder have on a label?
On European labels it is “café en poudre” in French, “Kaffeepulver” in German and “café en polvo” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- café en poudre
- German
- Kaffeepulver
- Spanish
- café en polvo
- Italian
- caffè in polvere
- Dutch
- koffiepoeder
- Swedish
- kaffepulver
- Finnish
- kahvijauhe
- Croatian
- kava u prahu
Which foods contain coffee powder?
Open Food Facts lists coffee powder in the ingredients of 500 products, most often biscuits and cakes, ice cream and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 121 · United States 121 · Germany 59 · Australia 37.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where coffee powder turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is coffee powder?
Coffee powder is 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 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
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