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Cooked chickpeas on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Cooked chickpeas are a kind of chickpea. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 1,399 products, most often in dressings and sauces.

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Do cooked chickpeas contain an allergen?

Cooked chickpeas 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 cooked chickpeas vegan?

Yes. Cooked chickpeas are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names do cooked chickpeas have on a label?

In English cooked chickpeas can also read “boiled chickpeas”. On European labels they are “pois chiches cuits” in French, “gekochte Kichererbsen” in German and “garbanzos cocidos” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.

In Englishboiled chickpeas
French
pois chiches cuits
German
gekochte Kichererbsen, Kichererbsen gekocht
Spanish
garbanzos cocidos
Italian
ceci cotti
Dutch
gekookte kikkererwten
Portuguese
Grão-de-bico cozido
Polish
ciecierzyca gotowana
Swedish
kokta kikärter
Danish
kogte kikærter
Finnish
keitetty kikherne
Czech
vařená cizrna
Romanian
năut fiert
Croatian
kuhani slanutak

Which foods contain cooked chickpeas?

Open Food Facts lists cooked chickpeas in the ingredients of 1,399 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and beans and pulses. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.

  • Dressings and sauces903
  • Ready meals153
  • Beans and pulses40
  • Salty and fatty foods22
  • Sandwiches14
  • Vegetables10

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 363 · France 326 · United Kingdom 233 · Germany 141.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cooked chickpeas turn up, not how much of the market they are.

What kind of ingredient are cooked chickpeas?

Cooked chickpeas are a kind of chickpea.

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Cooked chickpeas
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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