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Millet flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Millet flour is a kind of cereal flour. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 662 products, most often in bread.

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Does millet flour contain an allergen?

Millet flour is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.

Is millet flour vegan?

Yes. Millet 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.

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What other names does millet flour have on a label?

On European labels it is “farine de millet” in French, “Hirsemehl” in German and “harina de mijo” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.

French
farine de millet
German
Hirsemehl
Spanish
harina de mijo
Italian
farina di miglio
Polish
mąka jaglana
Finnish
hirssijauho
Hungarian
kölesliszt
Croatian
brašno od prosa

Which foods contain millet flour?

Open Food Facts lists millet flour or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 662 products, most often bread, biscuits and cakes and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Bread186
  • Biscuits and cakes83
  • Pasta, rice and flour60
  • Baby foods24
  • Cereals and potatoes16
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches14

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 323 · France 154 · Germany 63 · United Kingdom 40.

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

What kind of ingredient is millet flour?

Millet flour is a kind of cereal flour.

Kinds of millet flourWhole grain millet flour

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Millet flour
  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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