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Ground coffee on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Ground coffee is a kind of coffee. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,334 products, most often in unsweetened drinks.
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Does ground coffee contain an allergen?
Ground coffee 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 ground coffee vegan?
Yes. Ground coffee is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does ground coffee have on a label?
On European labels it is “café moulu” in French, “gemahlener Kaffee” in German and “cafe molido” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- café moulu
- German
- gemahlener Kaffee
- Spanish
- cafe molido
- Italian
- caffè macinato
- Dutch
- gemalen koffie
- Finnish
- jauhettu kahvi
- Romanian
- cafea măcinată
- Croatian
- mljevena mješavina kavovina, mljevena kava
Which foods contain ground coffee?
Open Food Facts lists ground coffee or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,334 products, most often unsweetened drinks, tea and coffee and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in France, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 793 · United Kingdom 117 · Germany 112 · United States 101.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where ground coffee turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is ground coffee?
Ground coffee is a kind of coffee.
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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: Ground coffee
- 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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