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Cowpea on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Cowpea is a kind of legume. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan.

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Does cowpea contain an allergen?

Cowpea 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 cowpea vegan?

Yes. Cowpea is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

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 does cowpea have on a label?

In English cowpea can also read “cowpeas”. On European labels it is “niébé” in French, “Augenbohne” in German and “feijão-frade” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.

In Englishcowpeas
French
niébé, voème
German
Augenbohne
Spanish
feijão-frade
Italian
fagiolo dall'occhio
Polish
Wspięga wężowata
Swedish
Ögonböna
Finnish
Lehmänpapu
Hungarian
tehénborsó
Croatian
kravlji grah
Turkish
Börülce

Which foods contain cowpea?

Open Food Facts lists cowpea or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 14 products, most often pasta, rice and flour, salty and fatty foods and breakfast cereals. Most of them are sold in France, China and the United States.

  • Pasta, rice and flour4
  • Salty and fatty foods3
  • Breakfast cereals2
  • Beans and pulses1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 9 · China 1 · United States 1 · Senegal 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cowpea turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is cowpea?

Cowpea is a kind of legume.

Kinds of cowpeaBrown cowpeaWhite cowpea

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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: Cowpea
  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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