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Double Gloucester on a food label: it contains milk

Double Gloucester is a kind of cheese. It contains milk, so the allergen labelling rules apply. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 33 products, most often in cheese.

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Double Gloucester=milk

Does Double Gloucester contain an allergen?

Yes. Double Gloucester contains milk: labels in the US, the UK, Europe and the Gulf must declare it.

AllergenUSUK and EuropeGulf
MilkRequiredRequiredLactose includedRequiredLactose included

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Is Double Gloucester vegan?

No. Double Gloucester is not vegan: it is made from milk. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it is made from milk.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.
Milk allergyNot for youIt contains milk.

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What other names does Double Gloucester have on a label?

In English Double Gloucester can also read “Double Gloucester cheese”. On European labels it is “fromage de Double Gloucester” in French, “Double-Gloucester-Käse” in German and “doppio Gloucester” in Italian. One more language is listed below.

In EnglishDouble Gloucester cheese
French
fromage de Double Gloucester
German
Double-Gloucester-Käse
Italian
doppio Gloucester
Croatian
dvostruki gloucester

Which foods contain Double Gloucester?

Open Food Facts lists Double Gloucester in the ingredients of 33 products, most often cheese and savoury snacks. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and France.

  • Cheese21
  • Savoury snacks1

Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 24 · United States 6 · France 4 · Germany 1.

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

What kind of ingredient is Double Gloucester?

Double Gloucester is a kind of cheese.

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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: Double Gloucester
  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)
  7. Wikipedia: Gloucester cheese

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