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Creatine monohydrate on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Creatine monohydrate is a kind of creatine. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 302 products, most often in drinks with sweeteners.
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Does creatine monohydrate contain an allergen?
Creatine monohydrate 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 creatine monohydrate vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of creatine monohydrate 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.
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What other names does creatine monohydrate have on a label?
On European labels it is “mono-hydrate de créatine” in French, “kreatin-monohydrat” in German and “Monoidrato di creatina” in Italian. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- mono-hydrate de créatine
- German
- kreatin-monohydrat
- Italian
- Monoidrato di creatina
- Polish
- monohydrat kreatyny
- Finnish
- kreatiinimonohydraatti
- Croatian
- kreatin monohidrat
Which foods contain creatine monohydrate?
Open Food Facts lists creatine monohydrate in the ingredients of 302 products, most often drinks with sweeteners, unsweetened drinks and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 126 · France 59 · Germany 22 · United Kingdom 20.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where creatine monohydrate turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is creatine monohydrate?
Creatine monohydrate is a kind of creatine.
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- Open Food Facts: Creatine monohydrate
- 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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