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Dehydrated seaweed on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Dehydrated seaweed is a kind of seaweed. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 83 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does dehydrated seaweed contain an allergen?
Dehydrated seaweed 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 dehydrated seaweed vegan?
Yes. Dehydrated seaweed is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does dehydrated seaweed have on a label?
On European labels it is “algues déshydratées” in French, “Seetang getrocknet” in German and “alga marina deshidritada” in Spanish. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- algues déshydratées
- German
- Seetang getrocknet
- Spanish
- alga marina deshidritada
- Italian
- alghe disidratate
- Finnish
- kuivattu merilevä
- Croatian
- dehidrirana morska trava
Which foods contain dehydrated seaweed?
Open Food Facts lists dehydrated seaweed in the ingredients of 83 products, most often ready meals, pasta, rice and flour and fish and seafood. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 38 · Germany 31 · United States 13 · Switzerland 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where dehydrated seaweed turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is dehydrated seaweed?
Dehydrated seaweed is a kind of seaweed.
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- Open Food Facts: Dehydrated seaweed
- 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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