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Grass pea on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Grass pea is a kind of pea. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 91 products, most often in vegetables.
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Does grass pea contain an allergen?
Grass pea 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 grass pea vegan?
Yes. Grass pea is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does grass pea have on a label?
In English grass pea can also read “grasspea”, “grass peas” or “cicerchia”. On European labels it is “pois carré” in French, “Saat-Platterbse” in German and “almorta” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.
- French
- pois carré, pois carrés
- German
- Saat-Platterbse
- Spanish
- almorta, Chícharo
- Italian
- cicerchia
- Portuguese
- chícharo
- Swedish
- plattvial
- Finnish
- peltonätkelmä
- Hungarian
- szegletes lednek, szeges lednek
- Croatian
- trava grašak
Which foods contain grass pea?
Open Food Facts lists grass pea or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 91 products, most often vegetables, oily fish and bread. Most of them are sold in Mexico, Spain and Italy.
Products with it, by country of sale: Mexico 75 · Spain 7 · Italy 5 · France 4.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where grass pea turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is grass pea?
Grass pea is a kind of pea.
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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: Grass pea
- 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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