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Crab flavour on a food label: it may contain crustaceans

Crab flavour is a kind of flavouring. It may be made from crustaceans. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 187 products, most often in fish and seafood.

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Crab flavour=crustaceans

Does crab flavour contain an allergen?

Crab flavour may be made from crustaceans or only taste of them. If it is made from them, the label must say so wherever the allergen lists apply.

Read the crustaceans and molluscs guide

Is crab flavour vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of crab flavour are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.
Shellfish allergyHeads upIt may be made from crustaceans.

A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.

What other names does crab flavour have on a label?

On European labels it is “arôme crabe” in French, “aroma de cangrejo” in Spanish and “sapore di granchio” in Italian. The other 6 languages are listed below.

French
arôme crabe
Spanish
aroma de cangrejo
Italian
sapore di granchio
Dutch
krabaroma
Portuguese
aroma de caranguejo
Swedish
krabbarom
Danish
krabbe aroma
Finnish
rapuaromi
Croatian
okus rakova

Which foods contain crab flavour?

Open Food Facts lists crab flavour in the ingredients of 187 products, most often fish and seafood, ready meals and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Spain.

  • Fish and seafood62
  • Ready meals51
  • Pasta, rice and flour6
  • Salty and fatty foods4
  • Cheese3
  • Sandwiches3

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 95 · France 36 · Spain 15 · Belgium 8.

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

What kind of ingredient is crab flavour?

Crab flavour is a kind of flavouring.

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Sources

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: Crab flavour
  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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