Ingredient dictionary
Natural yeast on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Natural yeast is a kind of yeast. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 864 products, most often in pastries.
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Does natural yeast contain an allergen?
Natural yeast 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 natural yeast vegan?
Yes. Natural yeast is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does natural yeast have on a label?
On European labels it is “levure naturelle” in French, “natürliche Hefe” in German and “Levadura natural” in Spanish. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- levure naturelle
- German
- natürliche Hefe
- Spanish
- Levadura natural
- Italian
- naturale-fermento, lievito naturale
- Finnish
- Luontainen hiiva
- Croatian
- prirodni kvasac
Which foods contain natural yeast?
Open Food Facts lists natural yeast in the ingredients of 864 products, most often pastries, bread and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in Italy, France and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: Italy 388 · France 331 · United States 147 · Spain 41.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where natural yeast turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is natural yeast?
Natural yeast is a kind of yeast.
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- Open Food Facts: Natural yeast
- 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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