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Milk flavouring on a food label: it may contain milk

Milk flavouring is a kind of flavouring. It may be made from milk. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 710 products, most often in ready meals.

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Milk flavouring=milk

Does milk flavouring contain an allergen?

Milk flavouring may be made from milk or only taste of it. If it is made from it, the label must say so wherever the allergen lists apply.

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Is milk flavouring vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of milk flavouring 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.

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.
Milk allergyHeads upIt may be made from milk.

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

What other names does milk flavouring have on a label?

On European labels it is “arôme de lait” in French, “Milcharoma” in German and “aroma de leche” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.

French
arôme de lait
German
Milcharoma
Spanish
aroma de leche
Italian
aroma di latte
Dutch
melkaroma
Hungarian
tej aroma
Croatian
aroma mlijeka

Which foods contain milk flavouring?

Open Food Facts lists milk flavouring in the ingredients of 710 products, most often ready meals, biscuits and cakes and savoury snacks. Most of them are sold in France, the United Kingdom and Belgium.

  • Ready meals146
  • Biscuits and cakes81
  • Savoury snacks75
  • Pasta, rice and flour46
  • Dressings and sauces30
  • Sweets25

Products with it, by country of sale: France 443 · United Kingdom 62 · Belgium 48 · United States 37.

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

What kind of ingredient is milk flavouring?

Milk flavouring is a kind of flavouring.

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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 flavouring
  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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