Ingredient dictionary
Millet seed on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Millet seed is a kind of millet. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 957 products, most often in bread.
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Does millet seed contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link millet seed to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is millet seed vegan?
Yes. Millet seed is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does millet seed have on a label?
On European labels it is “graines de millet” in French, “Hirsekörner” in German and “semillas de mijo” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- graines de millet
- German
- Hirsekörner
- Spanish
- semillas de mijo
- Italian
- semi di miglio
- Dutch
- gierstkorrels, gierst zaden
- Swedish
- hirsfrö
- Croatian
- sjeme prosa
Which foods contain millet seed?
Open Food Facts lists millet seed in the ingredients of 957 products, most often bread, sandwiches and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 543 · United States 197 · United Kingdom 130 · Italy 27.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where millet seed turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is millet seed?
Millet seed is a kind of millet.
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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: Millet seed
- 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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