Ingredient dictionary
Red lentils on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Red 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 1,845 products, most often in ready meals.
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Do red lentils contain an allergen?
Red 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 red lentils vegan?
Yes. Red lentils are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do red lentils have on a label?
On European labels they are “lentilles corail” in French, “Rote Linsen” in German and “lentejas rojas” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.
- French
- lentilles corail, lentilles rouges
- German
- Rote Linsen
- Spanish
- lentejas rojas
- Italian
- lenticchie rosse
- Dutch
- rode linzen
- Polish
- soczewica czerwona, soczewicy czerwonej
- Swedish
- röda linser
- Finnish
- punainen linssi, punaiset linssit
- Czech
- červená čočka
- Hungarian
- vöröslencse
- Croatian
- leća svijetlo crvena, leća tamnocrvena
Which foods contain red lentils?
Open Food Facts lists red lentils or a more specific kind of them in the ingredients of 1,845 products, most often ready meals, beans and pulses and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 745 · United States 285 · Germany 247 · United Kingdom 238.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where red lentils turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are red lentils?
Red 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.
- Open Food Facts: Red lentils
- 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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