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Ingredient dictionary

Gingerbread on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Gingerbread is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. Open Food Facts finds it in 175 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 310 kcal and 2.9 g protein.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20265 sourcesHow we check

Does gingerbread contain an allergen?

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

What other names does gingerbread have on a label?

On European labels it is “pain d'épices” in French, “Lebkuchen” in German and “pan de jengibre” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.

French: pain d'épices
German: Lebkuchen, Pfefferkuchen
Spanish: pan de jengibre
Italian: pan di zenzero, panpepato
Dutch: peperkoek
Portuguese: pão de mel
Polish: piernik, pierniki
Swedish: pepparkaka
Finnish: piparkakku
Czech: perník
Hungarian: mézeskalács
Romanian: turtă dulce
Croatian: medenjak

Which foods contain gingerbread?

Open Food Facts lists gingerbread in the ingredients of 175 products, most often biscuits and cakes, ready meals and sweets. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

Biscuits and cakes83
Ready meals13
Sweets12
Chocolate9
Savoury snacks5
Ice cream5

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 80 · France 70 · Germany 11 · Belgium 4.

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

How many calories are in gingerbread?

Gingerbread has about 310 kcal per 100 g, with 2.9 g protein, 72 g carbohydrate and 1.1 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Gingerbread” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

310kcal per 100 g

2.9g protein

72g carbohydrate

1.1g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 38 g, saturated fat 0.2 g, fibre 3 g, salt 0.47 g, energy 1,310 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 23200. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

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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.

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