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Raw cacao butter on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Raw cacao 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 75 products, most often in sweets.

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Does raw cacao butter contain an allergen?

Raw cacao 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 raw cacao butter vegan?

Yes. Raw cacao butter is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

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 does raw cacao butter have on a label?

On European labels it is “Beurre de cacao brut” in French, “Rohe Kakaobutter” in German and “burro di cacao crudo” in Italian. One more language is listed below.

French
Beurre de cacao brut
German
Rohe Kakaobutter
Italian
burro di cacao crudo
Croatian
sirovi kakao maslac

Which foods contain raw cacao butter?

Open Food Facts lists raw cacao butter in the ingredients of 75 products, most often sweets, chocolate and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

  • Sweets44
  • Chocolate8
  • Biscuits and cakes6
  • Unsweetened drinks1
  • Sweetened drinks1
  • Fats and spreads1

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 66 · United Kingdom 4 · France 3 · Spain 1.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where raw cacao butter turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is raw cacao butter?

Raw cacao butter is a kind of cocoa butter.

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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: Raw cacao butter
  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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