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Horseradish on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Horseradish is a kind of taproot vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 2,177 products, most often in dressings and sauces. Per 100 g: about 104 kcal and 7.5 g protein.
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Does horseradish contain an allergen?
Horseradish is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts files it under mustard; Bravoora checked that by hand and does not follow it, because the allergen lists mean the mustard plant, and this is not it. Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as an allergen either.
Is horseradish vegan?
Yes. Horseradish is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does horseradish have on a label?
In English horseradish can also read “horseradish root”. On European labels it is “raifort” in French, “Meerrettich” in German and “rábano picante” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- raifort, chrain
- German
- Meerrettich
- Spanish
- rábano picante
- Italian
- rafano, barbaforte
- Dutch
- mierikswortel, chrain
- Portuguese
- raiz-forte
- Polish
- chrzan pospolity, chrzan
- Swedish
- pepparrot, pepparrots
- Danish
- peberrod
- Norwegian
- pepperrot
- Finnish
- piparjuuri
- Czech
- křen selský, kořen křenu
- Hungarian
- torma
- Romanian
- hrean
- Croatian
- hren, hrena
- Turkish
- bayır turpu
Which foods contain horseradish?
Open Food Facts lists horseradish or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 2,177 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and cheese. Most of them are sold in the United States, Germany and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 1,165 · Germany 359 · France 333 · United Kingdom 87.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where horseradish turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in horseradish?
Horseradish has about 104 kcal per 100 g, with 7.5 g protein, 13 g carbohydrate and 0.7 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Horseradish, fresh” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 1.1 g, saturated fat 0.1 g, fibre 7.5 g, salt 0.02 g, energy 437 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11016. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is horseradish?
Horseradish is a kind of taproot vegetable.
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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: Horseradish
- 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
- Wikipedia: Horseradish
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