Ingredient dictionary
Pure vanilla extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Pure vanilla extract is a kind of vanilla extract. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 690 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does pure vanilla extract contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link pure vanilla extract to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is pure vanilla extract vegan?
Yes. Pure vanilla extract is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does pure vanilla extract have on a label?
On European labels it is “extrait pur de vanille” in French, “reiner Vanilleextrakt” in German and “Extracto puro de vainilla” in Spanish. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- extrait pur de vanille
- German
- reiner Vanilleextrakt, Purer Vanilleextrakt
- Spanish
- Extracto puro de vainilla
- Italian
- estratto puro di vaniglia
- Finnish
- puhdas vaniljauute
- Croatian
- čisti ekstrakt vanilije
Which foods contain pure vanilla extract?
Open Food Facts lists pure vanilla extract in the ingredients of 690 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 582 · France 84 · Switzerland 32 · Canada 8.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where pure vanilla extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is pure vanilla extract?
Pure vanilla extract is a kind of vanilla extract.
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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: Pure vanilla 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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