Ingredient dictionary
Salt on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Salt is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 635,873 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 0 kcal and 0 g protein.
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Does salt contain an allergen?
Salt 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 salt vegan?
Yes. Salt is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does salt have on a label?
In English salt can also read “table salt”, “common salt” or “cooking salt”. On European labels it is “sel” in French, “Speisesalz” in German and “Sal” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- sel, Sel alimentaire
- German
- Speisesalz, Kochsalz
- Spanish
- Sal, sal común
- Italian
- sale, sale da cucina
- Dutch
- zout, Keukenzout
- Portuguese
- sal, sal de cozinha
- Polish
- sól, sól kuchenna
- Swedish
- koksalt, bordssalt
- Danish
- Husholdningssalt, køkkensalt
- Finnish
- suola, ruokasuola
- Czech
- Sůl, jedlá sůl
- Hungarian
- só, étkezési só
- Romanian
- sare, Sare de bucătărie
- Croatian
- sol, kuhinjska sol
- Turkish
- tuz, Yemek tuzu
Which foods contain salt?
Open Food Facts lists salt or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 635,873 products, most often biscuits and cakes, dressings and sauces and ready meals. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 245,703 · France 178,212 · Germany 58,948 · United Kingdom 31,783.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where salt turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in salt?
Salt has about 0 kcal per 100 g, with 0 g protein, 0 g carbohydrate and 0 g fat. The figures are for food 11058 in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 0 g, salt 97.8 g, energy 0 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11058. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is salt?
Bravoora reads this ingredient for everyone you shop for: an allergy or intolerance, a vegan or vegetarian diet, a calorie or protein goal, and the labels on supplements and skincare too. Build a profile · For dietitians, doctors and trainers
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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: Salt
- 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
- Wikipedia: Salt
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