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Garden peas on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Garden peas are one of the green peas. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 3,841 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 67 kcal and 5.8 g protein.

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Do garden peas contain an allergen?

Garden peas 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 garden peas vegan?

Yes. Garden peas 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 garden peas have on a label?

In English garden peas can also read “English peas”. On European labels they are “petits pois” in French, “Markerbsen” in German and “guisantes de jardín” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.

In EnglishEnglish peas
French
petits pois, petit pois
German
Markerbsen, Gartenerbsen
Spanish
guisantes de jardín
Italian
pisellini
Dutch
doperwten, doperwt
Finnish
tarhaherne, tarhaherneet
Croatian
vrtni grašak

Which foods contain garden peas?

Open Food Facts lists garden peas or a more specific kind of them in the ingredients of 3,841 products, most often ready meals, vegetables and soups. Most of them are sold in France, Switzerland and Belgium.

  • Ready meals1,076
  • Vegetables1,042
  • Soups274
  • Baby foods194
  • Savoury snacks131
  • Pasta, rice and flour94

Products with it, by country of sale: France 3,065 · Switzerland 232 · Belgium 231 · Netherlands 184.

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

How many calories are in garden peas?

Garden peas have about 67 kcal per 100 g, with 5.8 g protein, 7 g carbohydrate and 0.6 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Garden peas, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

67kcal per 100 g
5.8g protein
7g carbohydrate
0.6g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 5.7 g, saturated fat 0.1 g, fibre 5.5 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 281 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 20072. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient are garden peas?

Garden peas are one of the green peas.

Kinds of garden peasSweet peasExtra fine garden peasLarge garden peasGarden peas flour

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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: Garden peas
  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. ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0

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