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Dark wheat flour on a food label: it contains gluten

Dark wheat flour is a kind of wheat flour. It contains gluten, so the allergen labelling rules apply. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 34 products, most often in bread.

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Does dark wheat flour contain an allergen?

Yes. Dark wheat flour is made from wheat, a cereal containing gluten: labels in the UK, Europe and the Gulf must declare it, and US labels must name wheat.

AllergenUSUK and EuropeGulf
Cereals containing glutenPartlyWheat onlyRequiredWheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt, khorasanRequiredWheat, barley, oats, rye, spelt

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Is dark wheat flour vegan?

Yes. Dark wheat flour 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.
Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for youIt is made from a cereal containing gluten.

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What other names does dark wheat flour have on a label?

In English dark wheat flour can also read “yeast bread wheat flour”. On European labels it is “Weizenbrotmehl” in German, “jästbrödsvetemjöl” in Swedish and “hiivaleipäjauho” in Finnish. One more language is listed below.

In Englishyeast bread wheat flour
German
Weizenbrotmehl, dunkles Weizenmehl
Swedish
jästbrödsvetemjöl, vetejästbrödmjöl
Finnish
hiivaleipäjauho, tumma vehnäjauho
Croatian
tamno pšenično brašno

Which foods contain dark wheat flour?

Open Food Facts lists dark wheat flour in the ingredients of 34 products, most often bread, biscuits and cakes and cereals and potatoes. Most of them are sold in Finland and France.

  • Bread24
  • Biscuits and cakes2
  • Cereals and potatoes2
  • Savoury snacks1
  • Pasta, rice and flour1

Products with it, by country of sale: Finland 34 · France 4.

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

What kind of ingredient is dark wheat flour?

Dark wheat flour is a kind of wheat flour.

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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: Dark wheat flour
  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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