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Evaporated salt on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Evaporated salt is a kind of salt. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 98 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does evaporated salt contain an allergen?

Evaporated salt 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 evaporated salt vegan?

Yes. Evaporated salt 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.

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What other names does evaporated salt have on a label?

On European labels it is “sel évaporé” in French, “Siedesalz” in German and “sydesalt” in Danish.

French
sel évaporé
German
Siedesalz
Danish
sydesalt

Which foods contain evaporated salt?

Open Food Facts lists evaporated salt in the ingredients of 98 products, most often ready meals, pasta, rice and flour and cheese. Most of them are sold in Germany, the United States and France.

  • Ready meals5
  • Pasta, rice and flour3
  • Cheese3
  • Breakfast cereals2
  • Sandwiches2
  • Biscuits and cakes1

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 67 · United States 29 · France 5 · Ireland 5.

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

What kind of ingredient is evaporated salt?

Evaporated salt is a kind of salt.

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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: Evaporated salt
  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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