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Onion extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Onion extract is a kind of onion. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,462 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does onion extract contain an allergen?
Onion extract 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 onion extract vegan?
Yes. Onion extract is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does onion extract have on a label?
On European labels it is “extrait d'oignon” in French, “Zwiebelextrakt” in German and “Extracto de cebolla” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- extrait d'oignon
- German
- Zwiebelextrakt
- Spanish
- Extracto de cebolla
- Italian
- Estratto di cipolla
- Dutch
- uienextract
- Portuguese
- extrato de cebolo, extracto de cebolo
- Polish
- ekstrakt z cebuli, ekstrakty z cebuli
- Swedish
- lökextrakt
- Finnish
- sipuliuute
- Croatian
- ekstrakt luka
Which foods contain onion extract?
Open Food Facts lists onion extract in the ingredients of 1,462 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 475 · United States 404 · United Kingdom 249 · Germany 159.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where onion extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is onion extract?
Onion extract is a kind of onion.
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- Open Food Facts: Onion 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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