Ingredient dictionary
Kale on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Kale is a kind of cabbage. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 3,375 products, most often in unsweetened drinks.
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Does kale contain an allergen?
Kale 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 kale vegan?
Yes. Kale is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does kale have on a label?
In English kale can also read “curly cale” or “curly kale”. On European labels it is “chou frisé” in French, “Grünkohl” in German and “col rizada” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- chou frisé
- German
- Grünkohl
- Spanish
- col rizada, col crespa
- Italian
- cavolo riccio
- Dutch
- boerenkool
- Portuguese
- couve, couve-de-folhas
- Polish
- jarmuż, jarmużu
- Swedish
- grönkål
- Danish
- grønkål
- Norwegian
- grønnkål
- Finnish
- lehtikaali
- Czech
- kapusta kadeřavá
- Hungarian
- fodros kel
- Croatian
- kelj
- Turkish
- kara lahana
Which foods contain kale?
Open Food Facts lists kale or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 3,375 products, most often unsweetened drinks, ready meals and fruit and vegetables. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2,677 · United Kingdom 144 · France 119 · Canada 96.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where kale turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is kale?
Kale is a kind of cabbage.
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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: Kale
- 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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