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Ingredient dictionary

Molasses on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Molasses is a kind of sugar. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 19,443 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 300 kcal and 0 g protein.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20265 sourcesHow we check

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Does molasses contain an allergen?

Molasses 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 molasses vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of molasses are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. It is vegetarian.

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.

VegetarianFits youNot meat or fish.

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

What other names does molasses have on a label?

In English molasses can also read “black treacle”. On European labels it is “mélasse” in French, “Melasse” in German and “melaza” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.

In Englishblack treacle

French: mélasse, mélasses
German: Melasse
Spanish: melaza
Italian: melassa
Dutch: melasse, molasse
Portuguese: melaço
Polish: Melasa, melasy
Swedish: melass, melass sirap
Danish: melasse, mollasses
Norwegian: melasse
Finnish: Melassi, melassia
Czech: Melasa
Hungarian: melasz
Croatian: melasa
Turkish: Melas

Which foods contain molasses?

Open Food Facts lists molasses or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 19,443 products, most often biscuits and cakes, dressings and sauces and sweets. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.

Biscuits and cakes2,805
Dressings and sauces2,511
Sweets1,023
Pasta, rice and flour989
Bread958
Breakfast cereals902

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 14,438 · France 1,598 · United Kingdom 1,474 · Netherlands 533.

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

How many calories are in molasses?

Molasses has about 300 kcal per 100 g, with 0 g protein, 75 g carbohydrate and 0.1 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Cane molasses” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

300kcal per 100 g

0g protein

75g carbohydrate

0.1g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 75 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 0 g, salt 0.09 g, energy 1,270 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 31067. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is molasses?

Molasses is a kind of sugar.

Kinds of molassesCane sugar molasses MeladoCorn molasses

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