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Iodised salt on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Iodised salt is a kind of salt. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 17,687 products, most often in bread. Per 100 g: about 0 kcal and 0 g protein.
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Does iodised salt contain an allergen?
Iodised salt 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 iodised salt vegan?
Yes. Iodised salt is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does iodised salt have on a label?
In English iodised salt can also read “iodized salt”. On European labels it is “Sel iodé” in French, “Jodsalz” in German and “Sal yodada” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- Sel iodé, sel de cuisine iodé
- German
- Jodsalz, Iodsalz
- Spanish
- Sal yodada
- Italian
- Sale iodato, sale fino iodato protetto
- Dutch
- gejodeerd zout
- Portuguese
- Sal iodado
- Polish
- sól jodowana
- Swedish
- joderat salt, joderad salt
- Danish
- joderet salt, salt tilsat jod
- Norwegian
- jodisert salt, salt med jod
- Finnish
- jodioitu suola, jodia sisältävä suola
- Czech
- Jodidovaná sůl, jodizovaná sůl
- Hungarian
- jódozott só
- Romanian
- sare iodată, sare iodata
- Croatian
- jodirana sol, jodirona kuhinjska sol
Which foods contain iodised salt?
Open Food Facts lists iodised salt or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 17,687 products, most often bread, processed meat and ready meals. Most of them are sold in Germany, Switzerland and Mexico.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 5,144 · Switzerland 2,791 · Mexico 2,177 · France 2,078.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where iodised salt turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in iodised salt?
Iodised salt has about 0 kcal per 100 g, with 0 g protein, 0 g carbohydrate and 0 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Salt, white, for human consumption (sea, igneous or rock), iodine added, no other enrichment” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 0 g, salt 97.8 g, energy 0 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11058. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is iodised salt?
Iodised salt is a kind of salt.
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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: Iodised salt
- 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: Iodised salt
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