Ingredient dictionary
Puffed cereal on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Puffed cereal is a kind of cereal. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 249 products, most often in breakfast cereals.
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Does puffed cereal contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link puffed cereal to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is puffed cereal vegan?
Yes. Puffed cereal is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does puffed cereal have on a label?
On European labels it is “céréales soufflées” in French, “gepufftes Getreide” in German and “cereali soffiati” in Italian. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- céréales soufflées
- German
- gepufftes Getreide, Getreide gepufft
- Italian
- cereali soffiati
- Finnish
- puffattu vilja
- Hungarian
- puffasztott gabona, puffasztott gabonák
- Croatian
- napuhane žitarice
Which foods contain puffed cereal?
Open Food Facts lists puffed cereal or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 249 products, most often breakfast cereals, biscuits and cakes and chocolate. Most of them are sold in France, Italy and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 149 · Italy 55 · Switzerland 27 · Germany 22.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where puffed cereal turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is puffed cereal?
Puffed cereal is a kind of cereal.
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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: Puffed cereal
- 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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