Ingredient dictionary
Cooking water on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Cooking water is a kind of water. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 980 products, most often in baby foods.
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Does cooking water contain an allergen?
Cooking water 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 cooking water vegan?
Yes. Cooking water is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does cooking water have on a label?
On European labels it is “eau de cuisson” in French, “kochendes Wasser” in German and “agua de cocción” in Spanish. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- eau de cuisson
- German
- kochendes Wasser
- Spanish
- agua de cocción
- Italian
- acqua di cottura
- Dutch
- kookwater
- Croatian
- voda za kuhanje
Which foods contain cooking water?
Open Food Facts lists cooking water in the ingredients of 980 products, most often baby foods, soups and ready meals. Most of them are sold in France, Spain and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 801 · Spain 143 · Belgium 31 · Italy 14.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cooking water turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is cooking water?
Cooking water is a kind of water.
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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: Cooking water
- 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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