Ingredient dictionary
Leaf vegetable on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Leaf vegetable is a kind of vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 56,283 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does leaf vegetable contain an allergen?
Leaf vegetable 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 leaf vegetable vegan?
Yes. Leaf vegetable is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does leaf vegetable have on a label?
In English leaf vegetable can also read “leafy vegetable”. On European labels it is “légume-feuille” in French, “Blattgemüse” in German and “verdura de hoja” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.
- French
- légume-feuille, légumes-feuilles
- German
- Blattgemüse
- Spanish
- verdura de hoja
- Italian
- verdura a foglia
- Dutch
- bladgroente
- Portuguese
- vegetal folhoso
- Polish
- warzywo liściaste
- Swedish
- bladgrönsak
- Danish
- bladgrøntsag
- Finnish
- lehtivihannes
- Hungarian
- levelzöldség
- Croatian
- listnato povrće
Which foods contain leaf vegetable?
Open Food Facts lists leaf vegetable or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 56,283 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and vegetables. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 18,738 · France 17,811 · Germany 5,774 · United Kingdom 4,479.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where leaf vegetable turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is leaf vegetable?
Leaf vegetable is a kind of 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: Leaf vegetable
- 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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