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Flageolets on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Flageolets are a kind of pulse. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 453 products, most often in beans and pulses.

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Do flageolets contain an allergen?

Flageolets are 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.

Are flageolets vegan?

Yes. Flageolets are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.

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 do flageolets have on a label?

In English flageolets can also read “flageolet beans”. On European labels they are “Flageolette” in German, “habichuelas” in Spanish and “leikkopapu” in Finnish. One more language is listed below.

In Englishflageolet beans
German
Flageolette
Spanish
habichuelas
Finnish
leikkopapu, leikkopavut
Croatian
flažoleti

Which foods contain flageolets?

Open Food Facts lists flageolets or a more specific kind of them in the ingredients of 453 products, most often beans and pulses, vegetables and ready meals. Most of them are sold in France, Belgium and Germany.

  • Beans and pulses130
  • Vegetables122
  • Ready meals82
  • Savoury snacks69
  • Breakfast cereals1
  • Processed meat1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 441 · Belgium 16 · Germany 9 · Switzerland 5.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where flageolets turn up, not how much of the market they are.

What kind of ingredient are flageolets?

Flageolets are a kind of pulse.

Kinds of flageoletsGreen flageolets

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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: Flageolets
  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. Wikipedia: Flageolet bean

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