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Dark soy sauce on a food label: it contains soy

Dark soy sauce is a kind of soy sauce. It contains soy, so the allergen labelling rules apply. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 133 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does dark soy sauce contain an allergen?

Yes. Dark soy sauce contains soy: labels in the US, the UK, Europe and the Gulf must declare it. It is made to a recipe, so any other allergen in it must be named on the label too.

AllergenUSUK and EuropeGulf
SoybeansRequiredRequiredRequired

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Is dark soy sauce vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of dark soy sauce 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.
Soy allergyNot for youIt contains soy.

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

What other names does dark soy sauce have on a label?

On European labels it is “sauce soja foncée” in French, “dunkle Sojasauce” in German and “salsa di soia scura” in Italian. The other 2 languages are listed below.

French
sauce soja foncée
German
dunkle Sojasauce
Italian
salsa di soia scura
Polish
ciemny sos sojowy, sos sojowy ciemny
Croatian
tamni soja umak

Which foods contain dark soy sauce?

Open Food Facts lists dark soy sauce in the ingredients of 133 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and France.

  • Ready meals37
  • Dressings and sauces27
  • Pasta, rice and flour11
  • Savoury snacks2
  • Poultry2
  • Fish and seafood2

Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 82 · United States 23 · France 19 · Ireland 5.

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

What kind of ingredient is dark soy sauce?

Dark soy sauce is a kind of soy sauce.

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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: Dark soy sauce
  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
  4. European Union: Regulation 1169/2011 on food information to consumers, Annex II
  5. UK Food Standards Agency: Allergen guidance for food businesses (the 14 allergens)
  6. US FDA: Questions and Answers Regarding Food Allergen Labeling, Edition 5 (January 2025)

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