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Pure cocoa butter on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Pure cocoa butter is a kind of cocoa butter. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 126 products, most often in chocolate.
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Does pure cocoa butter contain an allergen?
Pure cocoa butter 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 pure cocoa butter vegan?
Yes. Pure cocoa butter is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does pure cocoa butter have on a label?
On European labels it is “pur beurre de cacao” in French, “reine Kakaobutter” in German and “manteca de cocoa pura” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- pur beurre de cacao
- German
- reine Kakaobutter
- Spanish
- manteca de cocoa pura
- Italian
- Burro cocco puro
- Dutch
- puur cacaoboter
- Finnish
- puhdas kaakaovoi
- Croatian
- čisti kakao maslac
Which foods contain pure cocoa butter?
Open Food Facts lists pure cocoa butter in the ingredients of 126 products, most often chocolate, sweets and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, Belgium and New Zealand.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 105 · Belgium 21 · New Zealand 16 · Australia 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where pure cocoa butter turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is pure cocoa butter?
Pure cocoa butter is a kind of cocoa butter.
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- Open Food Facts: Pure cocoa butter
- 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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