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Rice flakes on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Rice flakes are a kind of rice. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 433 products, most often in breakfast cereals.
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Do rice flakes contain an allergen?
Rice flakes 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 rice flakes vegan?
Yes. Rice flakes are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do rice flakes have on a label?
On European labels they are “flocons de riz” in French, “Reisflocken” in German and “copos de arroz” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- flocons de riz
- German
- Reisflocken
- Spanish
- copos de arroz
- Italian
- fiocchi di riso
- Portuguese
- flocos de arroz
- Polish
- płatki ryżowe
- Finnish
- riisihiutale
- Croatian
- rižine pahuljice
Which foods contain rice flakes?
Open Food Facts lists rice flakes in the ingredients of 433 products, most often breakfast cereals, biscuits and cakes and bread. Most of them are sold in France, India and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 127 · India 57 · United States 37 · Brazil 35.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where rice flakes turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are rice flakes?
Rice flakes are a kind of rice.
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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: Rice flakes
- 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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