Ingredient dictionary
Natural spices on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Natural spices are a kind of spice. Whether they carry an allergen depends on how they were made. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 952 products, most often in processed meat.
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Do natural spices contain an allergen?
It depends on how they were made. Open Food Facts does not link natural spices to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen they carry.
Are natural spices vegan?
Yes. Natural spices are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do natural spices have on a label?
On European labels they are “Épices naturelles” in French, “natürliche Gewürze” in German and “especias naturales” in Spanish. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- Épices naturelles
- German
- natürliche Gewürze
- Spanish
- especias naturales
- Italian
- spezie naturali
- Polish
- naturalne przyprawy, przyprawy naturalne
- Croatian
- biljni začini, prirodni začini
Which foods contain natural spices?
Open Food Facts lists natural spices in the ingredients of 952 products, most often processed meat, dressings and sauces and pizzas, pies and quiches. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Bulgaria.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 672 · France 75 · Bulgaria 52 · Spain 48.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where natural spices turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are natural spices?
Natural spices are a kind of spice.
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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 spices
- 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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