Ingredient dictionary
Natural extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Natural extract is a kind of extract. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 2,810 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does natural extract contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link natural extract to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
What other names does natural extract have on a label?
On European labels it is “extraits naturels” in French, “Natürliches Extrakt” in German and “extracto natural” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- extraits naturels
- German
- Natürliches Extrakt
- Spanish
- extracto natural, extractos naturales
- Italian
- estratto naturale
- Dutch
- natuurlijk extract
- Portuguese
- extrato natural, extracto natural
- Finnish
- luontainen uute
- Croatian
- prirodni ekstrakt
Which foods contain natural extract?
Open Food Facts lists natural extract or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 2,810 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and chocolate. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,206 · United States 1,175 · Germany 118 · Belgium 110.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where natural extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is natural extract?
Natural extract is a kind of extract.
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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: Natural extract
- 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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