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Evaporated milk on a food label: it contains milk

Evaporated milk is a kind of milk. It contains milk, so the allergen labelling rules apply. It is vegetarian but not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 768 products, most often in sweets.

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Evaporated milk=milk

Does evaporated milk contain an allergen?

Yes. Evaporated milk 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 evaporated milk vegan?

No. Evaporated milk is not vegan: it is made from milk. It is vegetarian.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it is made from milk.
VegetarianFits youNot meat or fish.
Milk allergyNot for youIt contains milk.

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What other names does evaporated milk have on a label?

On European labels it is “lait concentré non sucré” in French, “evaporierte Milch” in German and “leche evaporada” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.

French
lait concentré non sucré
German
evaporierte Milch, evaporierte Kondensmilch
Spanish
leche evaporada
Italian
latte evaporato
Dutch
koffiemelk, geëvaporeerde melk
Portuguese
leite evaporado
Swedish
indunstad mjölk
Finnish
Maitotiiviste
Hungarian
édesítetlen sűrített tej
Croatian
ispareno mlijeko

Which foods contain evaporated milk?

Open Food Facts lists evaporated milk or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 768 products, most often sweets, biscuits and cakes and fruit and vegetables. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Sweets282
  • Biscuits and cakes114
  • Fruit and vegetables45
  • Milk and yoghurt33
  • Ice cream18
  • Chocolate10

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 627 · France 27 · Germany 25 · Canada 21.

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

What kind of ingredient is evaporated milk?

Evaporated milk is a kind of milk.

Kinds of evaporated milkCoffee cream

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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: Evaporated milk
  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: Evaporated milk

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