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Milk filling on a food label: it contains milk

Milk filling is a kind of filling. It contains milk, so the allergen labelling rules apply. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 158 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.

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Milk filling=milk

Does milk filling contain an allergen?

Yes. Milk filling contains milk: labels in the US, the UK, Europe and the Gulf must declare it. It is made to a recipe, so any other allergen in it must be named on the label too.

AllergenUSUK and EuropeGulf
MilkRequiredRequiredLactose includedRequiredLactose included

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Is milk filling vegan?

No. Milk filling is not vegan: it is made from milk. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it is made from milk.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.
Milk allergyNot for youIt contains milk.

A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.

What other names does milk filling have on a label?

On European labels it is “fourrage lait” in French, “Milchfüllung” in German and “relleno de leche” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.

French
fourrage lait, fourrage au lait
German
Milchfüllung
Spanish
relleno de leche
Italian
farcitura al latte
Dutch
melkvulling
Portuguese
recheio de leite
Polish
nadzienie mleczne, krem o smaku mlecznym
Finnish
maitotäyte
Croatian
nadjev od mlijeka

Which foods contain milk filling?

Open Food Facts lists milk filling in the ingredients of 158 products, most often biscuits and cakes, breakfast cereals and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Spain.

  • Biscuits and cakes38
  • Breakfast cereals31
  • Pasta, rice and flour17
  • Ready meals11
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches9
  • Sweets8

Products with it, by country of sale: France 81 · United States 22 · Spain 16 · Belgium 9.

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

What kind of ingredient is milk filling?

Milk filling is a kind of filling.

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Sources

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: Milk filling
  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
  4. European Union: Regulation 1169/2011 on food information to consumers, Annex II
  5. UK Food Standards Agency: Allergen guidance for food businesses (the 14 allergens)
  6. US FDA: Questions and Answers Regarding Food Allergen Labeling, Edition 5 (January 2025)

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