Ingredient dictionary
Flax seed on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Flax seed is a kind of flax. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 13,386 products, most often in bread. Per 100 g: about 491 kcal and 20 g protein.
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Does flax seed contain an allergen?
Flax seed 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 flax seed vegan?
Yes. Flax seed is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does flax seed have on a label?
In English flax seed can also read “flax seeds”, “flaxseed” or “linseed”. On European labels it is “graine de lin” in French, “Leinsamen” in German and “semillas de lino” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- graine de lin, graines de lin
- German
- Leinsamen, Leinsaat
- Spanish
- semillas de lino, semillas de linaza
- Italian
- semi di lino
- Dutch
- lijnzaad
- Portuguese
- linhaça
- Polish
- Siemię lniane, nasiona lnu
- Swedish
- linfrön, linfrö
- Danish
- Hørfrø
- Norwegian
- linfrø
- Finnish
- pellavansiemen, pellavansiemenet
- Czech
- Len setý, lněna seminka
- Hungarian
- Lenmag
- Romanian
- semințe de in
- Croatian
- lanene sjemenke, lan sjemenke
- Turkish
- keten
Which foods contain flax seed?
Open Food Facts lists flax seed or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 13,386 products, most often bread, breakfast cereals and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 4,787 · France 3,306 · Germany 1,368 · United Kingdom 880.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where flax seed turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in flax seed?
Flax seed has about 491 kcal per 100 g, with 20 g protein, 6.6 g carbohydrate and 37 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Flaxseed” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 1.6 g, saturated fat 3.2 g, fibre 27 g, salt 0.05 g, energy 2,030 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 15034. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is flax seed?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, flax seed sits under flax and seed.
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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.
- Open Food Facts: Flax seed
- Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
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