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Ground vanilla beans on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Ground vanilla beans are a kind of vanilla pod. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 732 products, most often in ice cream.

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Do ground vanilla beans contain an allergen?

Ground vanilla beans are 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.

Are ground vanilla beans vegan?

Yes. Ground vanilla beans are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.

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 do ground vanilla beans have on a label?

In English ground vanilla beans can also read “vanilla bean pieces”. On European labels they are “gousses de vanille moulues” in French, “gemahlene Vanilleschoten” in German and “semi di vaniglia macinat” in Italian. The other 5 languages are listed below.

In Englishvanilla bean pieces
French
gousses de vanille moulues, gousses de vanille broyées
German
gemahlene Vanilleschoten, Vanilleschoten gemahlen
Italian
semi di vaniglia macinat, vaniglia in bacche macinata
Polish
kawałki wanilii, laska wanilii w proszku
Swedish
mald vaniljstång, vaniljstångbitar
Danish
formalede vaniljestænger
Finnish
vaniljatangon palat, vaniljakodat
Croatian
mljevene mahune vanilije

Which foods contain ground vanilla beans?

Open Food Facts lists ground vanilla beans in the ingredients of 732 products, most often ice cream, sweets and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in the United States, Germany and France.

  • Ice cream107
  • Sweets88
  • Biscuits and cakes77
  • Milk and yoghurt61
  • Chocolate46
  • Dairy desserts43

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 346 · Germany 143 · France 102 · Switzerland 41.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where ground vanilla beans turn up, not how much of the market they are.

What kind of ingredient are ground vanilla beans?

Ground vanilla beans are a kind of vanilla pod.

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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: Ground vanilla beans
  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

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