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Cream flavouring on a food label: it may contain milk

Cream flavouring is a kind of flavouring. It may be made from milk. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 260 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.

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Cream flavouring=milk

Does cream flavouring contain an allergen?

Cream flavouring may be made from milk or only taste of it. If it is made from it, the label must say so wherever the allergen lists apply.

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Is cream flavouring vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of cream flavouring 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.
Milk allergyHeads upIt may be made from milk.

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

What other names does cream flavouring have on a label?

On European labels it is “arôme de crème” in French, “sahnearoma” in German and “aroma de nata” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.

French
arôme de crème
German
sahnearoma
Spanish
aroma de nata
Italian
aroma di panna
Polish
aromat śmietankowy
Danish
flødearoma
Finnish
kerma-aromi
Croatian
aroma vrhnja

Which foods contain cream flavouring?

Open Food Facts lists cream flavouring in the ingredients of 260 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and ice cream. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Belgium.

  • Biscuits and cakes44
  • Sweets35
  • Ice cream18
  • Savoury snacks10
  • Sweetened drinks9
  • Unsweetened drinks8

Products with it, by country of sale: France 109 · United States 77 · Belgium 71 · Spain 32.

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

What kind of ingredient is cream flavouring?

Cream flavouring 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: Cream flavouring
  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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