Ingredient dictionary
Marinade on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Marinade is a kind of sauce. It is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 794 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does marinade contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link marinade to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is marinade vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of marinade are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does marinade have on a label?
On European labels it is “marinado” in Spanish, “marinata” in Italian and “marinada” in Portuguese. The other 6 languages are listed below.
- Spanish
- marinado
- Italian
- marinata
- Portuguese
- marinada
- Polish
- marynata
- Swedish
- marinad
- Finnish
- marinadi
- Czech
- marináda
- Hungarian
- marinálás
- Croatian
- marinada
Which foods contain marinade?
Open Food Facts lists marinade or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 794 products, most often ready meals, meat and poultry. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 305 · Germany 127 · Belgium 93 · United States 63.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where marinade turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is marinade?
Marinade is a kind of sauce.
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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: Marinade
- 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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