Ingredient dictionary
Nettle on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Nettle is a kind of leaf vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 516 products, most often in unsweetened drinks.
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Does nettle contain an allergen?
Nettle 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 nettle vegan?
Yes. Nettle is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does nettle have on a label?
In English nettle can also read “stinging nettle” or “perrenial nettle”. On European labels it is “ortie” in French, “Brennnessel” in German and “ortiga” in Spanish. The other 11 languages are listed below.
- French
- ortie, orties
- German
- Brennnessel, Brennnesseln
- Spanish
- ortiga
- Italian
- ortiche
- Dutch
- brandnetel
- Polish
- Pokrzywa, pokrzywy
- Swedish
- Nässelsläktet
- Danish
- Nælde
- Norwegian
- brennesler
- Finnish
- nokkonen, nokkoset
- Czech
- kopřiva
- Hungarian
- Csalánfélék
- Croatian
- kopriva, urtica dioica L
- Turkish
- Isırgan
Which foods contain nettle?
Open Food Facts lists nettle or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 516 products, most often unsweetened drinks, sweets and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 220 · United States 102 · Germany 88 · Switzerland 38.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where nettle turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is nettle?
Nettle is a kind of leaf vegetable.
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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: Nettle
- 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
- Wikipedia: Urtica dioica
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