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Malted wheat flour on a food label: it contains gluten

Malted wheat flour is a kind of wheat flour. It contains gluten, so the allergen labelling rules apply. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 7,262 products, most often in bread.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20266 sourcesHow we check

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Does malted wheat flour contain an allergen?

Yes. Malted wheat flour is made from wheat, a cereal containing gluten: labels in the UK, Europe and the Gulf must declare it, and US labels must name wheat.

Allergen	US	UK and Europe	Gulf
Cereals containing gluten	PartlyWheat only	RequiredWheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt, khorasan	RequiredWheat, barley, oats, rye, spelt

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Is malted wheat flour vegan?

Yes. Malted wheat flour 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.

Coeliac or gluten-freeNot for youIt is made from a cereal containing gluten.

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What other names does malted wheat flour have on a label?

In English malted wheat flour can also read “wheat malt flour”. On European labels it is “farine de blé maltée” in French, “gemaltzen Weizenmehl” in German and “harina de trigo malteada” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.

In Englishwheat malt flour

French: farine de blé maltée, farine de blé fermenté
German: gemaltzen Weizenmehl, Weizenmalzmehl
Spanish: harina de trigo malteada, harina de malta de trigo
Italian: farina di grano maltato, farina di malto di frumento
Dutch: gemout tarwemeel, tarwemoutmeel
Portuguese: farinha de malte de trigo
Polish: mąka słodowa pszenna, mąka pszenna słodowana
Swedish: vetemaltmjöl
Danish: hvedemaltmel
Finnish: vehnämallasjauho, mallastettu vehnäjauho
Hungarian: búzamaláta liszt
Croatian: pšenično sladno brašno, pšenično sladno brašno od cjelovitog zrna

Which foods contain malted wheat flour?

Open Food Facts lists malted wheat flour or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 7,262 products, most often bread, biscuits and cakes and pizzas, pies and quiches. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Bread2,478
Biscuits and cakes795
Pizzas, pies and quiches629
Sandwiches523
Pastries296
Savoury snacks271

Products with it, by country of sale: France 3,923 · Germany 962 · United Kingdom 555 · Italy 510.

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

What kind of ingredient is malted wheat flour?

Malted wheat flour is a kind of wheat flour.

Kinds of malted wheat flourCaramelized malted wheat flour

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