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Green cardamom on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Green cardamom is a kind of cardamom. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 302 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does green cardamom contain an allergen?

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

Is green cardamom vegan?

Yes. Green cardamom 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.

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What other names does green cardamom have on a label?

In English green cardamom can also read “elettaria cardamomum”. On European labels it is “cardamome verte” in French, “grüner Kardamom” in German and “cardamomo verde” in Italian. One more language is listed below.

In Englishelettaria cardamomum
French
cardamome verte
German
grüner Kardamom, grüner Cardamom
Italian
cardamomo verde
Croatian
zeleni kardamom

Which foods contain green cardamom?

Open Food Facts lists green cardamom in the ingredients of 302 products, most often ready meals, pasta, rice and flour and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, India and France.

  • Ready meals55
  • Pasta, rice and flour47
  • Dressings and sauces32
  • Savoury snacks10
  • Unsweetened drinks9
  • Poultry3

Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 113 · India 75 · France 72 · United States 51.

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

What kind of ingredient is green cardamom?

Green cardamom is a kind of cardamom.

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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: Green cardamom
  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. Wikipedia: Elettaria cardamomum

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