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Red yeast rice on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Red yeast rice is a kind of red rice. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 62 products, most often in savoury snacks.
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Does red yeast rice contain an allergen?
Red yeast rice 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 yeast rice vegan?
Yes. Red yeast rice is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does red yeast rice have on a label?
On European labels it is “Levure de riz rouge” in French, “Rot fermentierter Reis” in German and “Arroz de levadura roja” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- Levure de riz rouge
- German
- Rot fermentierter Reis
- Spanish
- Arroz de levadura roja
- Italian
- riso rosso fermentato
- Portuguese
- Arroz fermentado vermelho
- Croatian
- crvena riža s kvascem
- Turkish
- Kırmızı pirinç mayası
Which foods contain red yeast rice?
Open Food Facts lists red yeast rice in the ingredients of 62 products, most often savoury snacks, pasta, rice and flour and sweets. Most of them are sold in Japan, the United States and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: Japan 35 · United States 12 · France 10 · Taiwan 4.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where red yeast rice turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is red yeast rice?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, red yeast rice sits under red rice and yeast.
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- Open Food Facts: Red yeast rice
- 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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