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Legume on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Legume is a kind of pod and seed vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 110,633 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does legume contain an allergen?

Legume 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 legume vegan?

Yes. Legume is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

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 does legume have on a label?

On European labels it is “légumineuse” in French, “Hülsenfrucht” in German and “legumbre” in Spanish. The other 11 languages are listed below.

French
légumineuse
German
Hülsenfrucht
Spanish
legumbre
Italian
leguminose
Dutch
peulvruchten, peulvrucht
Polish
Rośliny strączkowe
Swedish
ärtväxt, ärtväxter
Danish
bælgfrugt
Norwegian
belgfrukt
Finnish
palkokasvi
Czech
luštěnina
Hungarian
hüvelyesek
Croatian
mahunarke
Turkish
baklagiller

Which foods contain legume?

Open Food Facts lists legume or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 110,633 products, most often ready meals, biscuits and cakes and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Ready meals12,490
  • Biscuits and cakes9,542
  • Dressings and sauces7,363
  • Beans and pulses7,191
  • Vegetables6,535
  • Ice cream5,032

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 47,500 · France 27,162 · Germany 11,885 · United Kingdom 6,389.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where legume turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is legume?

Legume is a kind of pod and seed vegetable.

Kinds of legumePulsePeaChickpeaLentilsGreen beanLima beanMixed beansSweet bean pasteCowpeaPigeon peaFresh broad bean to shellHyacinth beanRunner beanImmature winged bean seedYardlong beansImmature cowpeas

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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: Legume
  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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