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Root vegetable on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Root vegetable is a kind of vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 279,088 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does root vegetable contain an allergen?

Root vegetable 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 root vegetable vegan?

Yes. Root vegetable 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 root vegetable have on a label?

On European labels it is “légume-racine” in French, “Wurzelgemüse” in German and “raíz alimenticia” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.

French
légume-racine
German
Wurzelgemüse
Spanish
raíz alimenticia
Italian
radice, ortaggi da radice
Dutch
wortelgewas
Portuguese
tubérculos
Polish
warzywo korzeniowe
Swedish
rotfrukt, rotfrukter
Danish
rodfrugt
Norwegian
rotfrukt
Finnish
juures
Czech
kořenová zelenina
Hungarian
gyökérzöldség
Croatian
ulje korijenastog povrća, korjenasto povrće
Turkish
kök sebze

Which foods contain root vegetable?

Open Food Facts lists root vegetable or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 279,088 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and savoury snacks. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Ready meals35,170
  • Dressings and sauces33,296
  • Savoury snacks12,439
  • Vegetables9,402
  • Processed meat9,226
  • Pasta, rice and flour6,958

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 110,127 · France 76,264 · Germany 27,230 · United Kingdom 18,571.

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

What kind of ingredient is root vegetable?

Root vegetable is a kind of vegetable.

Kinds of root vegetableOnionGarlicTaproot vegetableTuberRapeseedChivesShallotWater chestnutTurnip rapeSugar beetBurdock rootLotus rootTurnip greenAsclepiasStarchy root vegetableVegetable oyster

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Sources

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: Root vegetable
  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
  4. Wikipedia: List of root vegetables

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