Ingredient dictionary
Maple extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Maple extract is a kind of vegetable extract. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 56 products, most often in processed meat.
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Does maple extract contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link maple extract to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
What other names does maple extract have on a label?
On European labels it is “extrait d'érable” in French, “estratto d'acero” in Italian and “ekstrakt javora” in Croatian.
- French
- extrait d'érable
- Italian
- estratto d'acero, estratto di acero
- Croatian
- ekstrakt javora
Which foods contain maple extract?
Open Food Facts lists maple extract or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 56 products, most often processed meat, biscuits and cakes and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 53 · Ireland 1 · United Kingdom 1.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where maple extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is maple extract?
Maple extract is a kind of vegetable extract.
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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: Maple extract
- 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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