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Demerara sugar on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Demerara sugar is a kind of unrefined cane sugar. 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 848 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.

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Does demerara sugar contain an allergen?

Demerara sugar 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 demerara sugar vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of demerara sugar are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. It is vegetarian.

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.
VegetarianFits youNot meat or fish.

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

What other names does demerara sugar have on a label?

On European labels it is “sucre demerara” in French, “demerara-zucker” in German and “zucchero Demerara” in Italian. The other 4 languages are listed below.

French
sucre demerara
German
demerara-zucker, demerera-zucker
Italian
zucchero Demerara
Polish
cukier demerara, demerara
Swedish
demerarasocker
Finnish
demerarasokeri
Croatian
demerara šećer

Which foods contain demerara sugar?

Open Food Facts lists demerara sugar in the ingredients of 848 products, most often biscuits and cakes, ready meals and oily fish. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and France.

  • Biscuits and cakes175
  • Ready meals55
  • Oily fish42
  • Dressings and sauces36
  • Processed meat36
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches20

Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 573 · United States 135 · France 123 · Ireland 25.

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

What kind of ingredient is demerara sugar?

Demerara sugar is a kind of unrefined cane sugar.

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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: Demerara sugar
  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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