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Galacto-oligosaccharides on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Galacto-oligosaccharides are one of the prebiotics. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. Open Food Facts finds them in 238 products, most often in baby milks.
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Do galacto-oligosaccharides contain an allergen?
Galacto-oligosaccharides 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.
What other names do galacto-oligosaccharides have on a label?
On European labels they are “Galactoligosacáridos” in Spanish, “Galatto-oligosaccaridi” in Italian and “Galacto-oligosacharide” in Dutch. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- Spanish
- Galactoligosacáridos
- Italian
- Galatto-oligosaccaridi
- Dutch
- Galacto-oligosacharide
- Portuguese
- Galactooligossacarídeo
- Finnish
- galakto-oligosakkaridit
- Hungarian
- galakto oligoszaharid
- Croatian
- galakto-oligosaharidi
Which foods contain galacto-oligosaccharides?
Open Food Facts lists galacto-oligosaccharides or a more specific kind of them in the ingredients of 238 products, most often baby milks, milk and yoghurt and unsweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 116 · United States 37 · United Kingdom 22 · Switzerland 12.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where galacto-oligosaccharides turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are galacto-oligosaccharides?
Galacto-oligosaccharides are one of the prebiotics.
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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.
- Open Food Facts: Galacto-oligosaccharides
- 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
- Wikipedia: Galactooligosaccharide
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