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Glucose-fructose syrup on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Glucose-fructose syrup is a kind of fructose. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 50,511 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does glucose-fructose syrup contain an allergen?
Glucose-fructose syrup is 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.
Is glucose-fructose syrup vegan?
Yes. Glucose-fructose syrup is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does glucose-fructose syrup have on a label?
In English glucose-fructose syrup can also read “fructose-glucose syrup” or “glucose and fructose syrup”. On European labels it is “sirop de glucose-fructose” in French, “Glukose-Fruktose-Sirup” in German and “jarabe de glucosa y fructosa” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- sirop de glucose-fructose, sirop de glucose et de fructose
- German
- Glukose-Fruktose-Sirup, Glukose-Fruktosesirup
- Spanish
- jarabe de glucosa y fructosa, jarabe de glucosa-fructosa
- Italian
- sciroppo di glucosio-fruttosio, sciroppo di fruttosio-glucosio
- Dutch
- glucose-fructosestroop, glucose-fructose-stroop
- Portuguese
- xarope de glucose-frutose, xarope de glucose e frutose
- Polish
- syrop glukozowo-fruktozowy, syrop fruktozowo-glukozowy
- Swedish
- glukos-fruktossirap, glukosfruktossirap
- Danish
- glukose-fruktosesirup, fruktose-glucosesirup
- Norwegian
- glukose-fruktosesirup
- Finnish
- glukoosi-fruktoosisiirappi, glukoosi-fruktoosisiirappia
- Czech
- glukózo-fruktózový sirup, glukózový-fruktózový sirup
- Hungarian
- glükóz-fruktóz szirup, fruktóz-glükóz-szirup
- Romanian
- sirop de glucoză-fructoză, sirop glucoză-fructoză
- Croatian
- fruktozno-glukozni sirup, glukozno-fruktozni sirup
Which foods contain glucose-fructose syrup?
Open Food Facts lists glucose-fructose syrup or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 50,511 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweetened drinks and sweets. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 26,155 · France 11,792 · Germany 4,483 · Spain 2,240.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where glucose-fructose syrup turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is glucose-fructose syrup?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, glucose-fructose syrup sits under fructose and glucose.
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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.
- Open Food Facts: Glucose-fructose syrup
- 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
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