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Mustard flavouring on a food label: it may contain mustard

Mustard flavouring is a kind of flavouring. It may be made from mustard. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 81 products, most often in dressings and sauces.

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Mustard flavouring=mustard

Does mustard flavouring contain an allergen?

Mustard flavouring may be made from mustard or only taste of it. If it is made from it, the label must say so wherever the allergen lists apply.

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Is mustard flavouring vegan?

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

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.
Mustard allergyHeads upIt may be made from mustard.

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

What other names does mustard flavouring have on a label?

On European labels it is “aroma di senape” in Italian and “aroma gorušice” in Croatian.

Italian
aroma di senape
Croatian
aroma gorušice

Which foods contain mustard flavouring?

Open Food Facts lists mustard flavouring in the ingredients of 81 products, most often dressings and sauces, savoury snacks and fish and seafood. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

  • Dressings and sauces26
  • Savoury snacks9
  • Fish and seafood7
  • Pasta, rice and flour5
  • Salty and fatty foods3
  • Sweets2

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 24 · United Kingdom 12 · Ireland 10 · France 9.

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

What kind of ingredient is mustard flavouring?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, mustard flavouring sits under flavouring and mustard.

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Sources

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: Mustard flavouring
  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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