Ingredient dictionary
Millet on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Millet is a kind of cereal. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 4,539 products, most often in bread.
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Does millet contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link millet 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 vegan?
Yes. Millet is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does millet have on a label?
On European labels it is “Hirse” in German, “mijo” in Spanish and “miglio” in Italian. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- German
- Hirse
- Spanish
- mijo
- Italian
- miglio
- Dutch
- gierst
- Portuguese
- milhete, painço
- Polish
- proso, prosa
- Swedish
- hirs
- Danish
- hirse
- Norwegian
- hirse
- Finnish
- hirssi, viljahirssi
- Czech
- jáhly
- Hungarian
- köles
- Romanian
- mei
- Croatian
- proso
- Turkish
- darı
Which foods contain millet?
Open Food Facts lists millet or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 4,539 products, most often bread, biscuits and cakes and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 1,808 · France 1,329 · United Kingdom 270 · Germany 256.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where millet turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is millet?
Millet is a kind of cereal.
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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
- 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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