Ingredient dictionary
Corn flakes on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Corn flakes are a kind of corn. Whether they carry an allergen depends on how they were made. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 2,109 products, most often in breakfast cereals.
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Do corn flakes contain an allergen?
It depends on how they were made. Open Food Facts does not link corn flakes to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen they carry.
Are corn flakes vegan?
Yes. Corn flakes are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do corn flakes have on a label?
In English corn flakes can also read “cornflakes”. On European labels they are “pétales de maïs” in French, “Maisflakes” in German and “copos de maíz” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.
- French
- pétales de maïs, pétale de maïs
- German
- Maisflakes, Cornflakes
- Spanish
- copos de maíz, cornflakes
- Italian
- fiocchi di mais, cornflakes
- Dutch
- maïsvlokken, cornflakes
- Portuguese
- flocos de milho
- Polish
- płatki kukurydziane
- Swedish
- majsflingor, cornflakes
- Finnish
- maissihiutale, maissihiutaleet
- Hungarian
- kukoricapehely
- Croatian
- kukuruzne pahuljice
Which foods contain corn flakes?
Open Food Facts lists corn flakes in the ingredients of 2,109 products, most often breakfast cereals, biscuits and cakes and poultry. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 714 · Germany 594 · Switzerland 165 · Spain 131.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where corn flakes turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are corn flakes?
Corn flakes are a kind of corn.
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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: Corn 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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