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

Garlic sausage is a kind of meat. It is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 50 products, most often in pizzas, pies and quiches. Per 100 g: about 280 kcal and 15 g protein.

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Does garlic sausage contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link garlic sausage 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 sausage vegan?

No. Garlic sausage is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it comes from an animal.
VegetarianNot for youIt comes from meat or another slaughter product.

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

What other names does garlic sausage have on a label?

On European labels it is “Saucisson à l'ail” in French, “Knoblauchwurst” in German and “Salchicha de ajo” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.

French
Saucisson à l'ail
German
Knoblauchwurst
Spanish
Salchicha de ajo
Italian
Salsiccia all'aglio
Dutch
knoflookworst
Portuguese
Linguiça de alho
Croatian
češnjak kobasica

Which foods contain garlic sausage?

Open Food Facts lists garlic sausage in the ingredients of 50 products, most often pizzas, pies and quiches, ready meals and processed meat. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Reunion.

  • Pizzas, pies and quiches17
  • Ready meals16
  • Processed meat6
  • Vegetables5
  • Pasta, rice and flour2

Products with it, by country of sale: France 29 · United States 17 · Reunion 2.

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

How many calories are in garlic sausage?

Garlic sausage has about 280 kcal per 100 g, with 15 g protein, 1.6 g carbohydrate and 24 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Garlic sausage” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

280kcal per 100 g
15g protein
1.6g carbohydrate
24g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 0.9 g, saturated fat 9.9 g, fibre 0.6 g, salt 2 g, energy 1,160 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 30700. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is garlic sausage?

Garlic sausage is a kind of meat.

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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: Garlic sausage
  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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