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Red quinoa on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Red quinoa is a kind of quinoa. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,301 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does red quinoa contain an allergen?
Red quinoa 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 red quinoa vegan?
Yes. Red quinoa is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does red quinoa have on a label?
On European labels it is “quinoa rouge” in French, “rotes Quinoa” in German and “Quinoa roja” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- quinoa rouge
- German
- rotes Quinoa, roter Quinoa
- Spanish
- Quinoa roja
- Italian
- Quinoa rossa
- Polish
- komosa ryżowa czerwona
- Finnish
- punainen kvinoa
- Hungarian
- vörös kinoa
- Croatian
- quinoa crvena
Which foods contain red quinoa?
Open Food Facts lists red quinoa or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,301 products, most often ready meals, pasta, rice and flour and bread. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 574 · France 460 · United Kingdom 106 · Spain 50.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where red quinoa turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is red quinoa?
Red quinoa is a kind of quinoa.
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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 quinoa
- 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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