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Mountain honey on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Mountain honey is a kind of honey. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegetarian but not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 53 products, most often in sweets.

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Does mountain honey contain an allergen?

Mountain honey 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 mountain honey vegan?

No. Mountain honey is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is vegetarian.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it comes from an animal.
VegetarianFits youNot meat or fish.

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What other names does mountain honey have on a label?

On European labels it is “miel de montagne” in French, “Berghonig” in German and “miele di montagna” in Italian. The other 3 languages are listed below.

French
miel de montagne, miel de fleurs de montagne
German
Berghonig
Italian
miele di montagna
Dutch
berghoning
Finnish
vuoristohunaja
Croatian
planinski med

Which foods contain mountain honey?

Open Food Facts lists mountain honey or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 53 products, most often sweets and ice cream. Most of them are sold in France and Germany.

  • Sweets46
  • Ice cream3

Products with it, by country of sale: France 51 · Germany 1.

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

What kind of ingredient is mountain honey?

Mountain honey is a kind of honey.

Kinds of mountain honeyOrganic mountain honey

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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: Mountain honey
  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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