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Natural cheese flavouring on a food label: it may contain milk

Natural cheese flavouring is a kind of cheese flavouring. It may be made from milk. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 340 products, most often in savoury snacks.

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Natural cheese flavouring=milk

Does natural cheese flavouring contain an allergen?

Natural cheese flavouring may be made from milk 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 natural cheese flavouring vegan?

No. Natural cheese flavouring is not vegan: it is made from milk. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it is made from milk.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.
Milk allergyHeads upIt may be made from milk.

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What other names does natural cheese flavouring have on a label?

On European labels it is “arôme naturel de fromage” in French, “natürliches Käsearoma” in German and “sabor natural a queso” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.

French
arôme naturel de fromage
German
natürliches Käsearoma
Spanish
sabor natural a queso
Italian
aroma naturale di formaggio
Dutch
natuurlijk kaasaroma
Polish
naturalny aromat sera
Hungarian
természetes sajt aroma
Croatian
prirodna aroma sira

Which foods contain natural cheese flavouring?

Open Food Facts lists natural cheese flavouring or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 340 products, most often savoury snacks, ready meals and cheese. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Italy.

  • Savoury snacks46
  • Ready meals40
  • Cheese37
  • Dressings and sauces29
  • Sandwiches18
  • Biscuits and cakes15

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 200 · France 77 · Italy 12 · Germany 10.

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

What kind of ingredient is natural cheese flavouring?

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

Kinds of natural cheese flavouringNatural cheddar flavouring

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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: Natural cheese 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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