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Precooked lentils on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Precooked lentils are one of the lentils. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 133 products, most often in ready meals.

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Do precooked lentils contain an allergen?

Precooked lentils 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 precooked lentils vegan?

Yes. Precooked lentils are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names do precooked lentils have on a label?

On European labels they are “lentilles précuites” in French, “vorgekochte Linsen” in German and “lenticchie precotte” in Italian. The other 4 languages are listed below.

French
lentilles précuites
German
vorgekochte Linsen
Italian
lenticchie precotte
Dutch
voorgekookte linzen
Polish
soczewica gotowana
Finnish
esikypsennetty linssi, esikypsennetyt linssit
Croatian
prethodno kuhana leća

Which foods contain precooked lentils?

Open Food Facts lists precooked lentils in the ingredients of 133 products, most often ready meals, pasta, rice and flour and beans and pulses. Most of them are sold in France, Reunion and Switzerland.

  • Ready meals88
  • Pasta, rice and flour10
  • Beans and pulses2
  • Cereals and potatoes2
  • Salty and fatty foods2
  • Meat, fish and eggs1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 126 · Reunion 6 · Switzerland 5.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where precooked lentils turn up, not how much of the market they are.

What kind of ingredient are precooked lentils?

Precooked lentils are one of the lentils.

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Precooked lentils
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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