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Pinto beans on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Pinto beans are a kind of pulse. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 1,588 products, most often in beans and pulses.
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Do pinto beans contain an allergen?
Pinto beans are 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.
Are pinto beans vegan?
Yes. Pinto beans are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do pinto beans have on a label?
On European labels they are “Haricots pinto” in French, “Pinto Bohnen” in German and “frijol pinto” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- Haricots pinto
- German
- Pinto Bohnen, Pintobohnen
- Spanish
- frijol pinto
- Italian
- fagioli pinto
- Swedish
- pintobönor, pintoböna
- Czech
- pinto fazole, fazole pinto
- Hungarian
- pinto bab, pintos bab
- Croatian
- grah crnobijeli
Which foods contain pinto beans?
Open Food Facts lists pinto beans in the ingredients of 1,588 products, most often beans and pulses, ready meals and vegetables. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 1,413 · United Kingdom 77 · Germany 32 · France 30.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where pinto beans turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are pinto beans?
Pinto beans are a kind of pulse.
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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: Pinto beans
- 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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