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Garlic paste on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Garlic paste is a kind of garlic. It is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,138 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does garlic paste contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link garlic paste to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is garlic paste vegan?

Yes. Garlic paste 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.

A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.

What other names does garlic paste have on a label?

On European labels it is “pâte d'ail” in French, “Knoblauchpaste” in German and “Pasta de ajo” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.

French
pâte d'ail, pulpe d'ail
German
Knoblauchpaste
Spanish
Pasta de ajo
Italian
Impasto d'aglio
Polish
pasta czosnkowa
Finnish
valkosipulitahna
Croatian
pasta od češnjaka

Which foods contain garlic paste?

Open Food Facts lists garlic paste in the ingredients of 1,138 products, most often ready meals, pizzas, pies and quiches and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in France, the United Kingdom and Germany.

  • Ready meals460
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches152
  • Dressings and sauces95
  • Processed meat63
  • Savoury snacks34
  • Poultry25

Products with it, by country of sale: France 803 · United Kingdom 102 · Germany 54 · United States 48.

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

What kind of ingredient is garlic paste?

Garlic paste is a kind of garlic.

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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: Garlic paste
  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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