Ingredient dictionary
Sea salt on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sea salt is a kind of salt. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 88,766 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 0 kcal and 0 g protein.
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Does sea salt contain an allergen?
Sea 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 sea salt vegan?
Yes. Sea salt is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does sea salt have on a label?
In English sea salt can also read “seasalt”, “bay salt” or “solar salt”. On European labels it is “sel marin” in French, “Meersalz” in German and “sal marina” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- sel marin, sel de mer
- German
- Meersalz
- Spanish
- sal marina, sal marina de mesa
- Italian
- sale marino
- Dutch
- zeezout
- Portuguese
- sal marinho
- Polish
- sól morska, soli morskiej
- Swedish
- havssalt
- Danish
- havsalt
- Norwegian
- havsalt
- Finnish
- merisuola
- Czech
- mořská sůl
- Hungarian
- tengeri só
- Romanian
- sare de mare
- Croatian
- morska sol
- Turkish
- deniz tuzu
Which foods contain sea salt?
Open Food Facts lists sea salt or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 88,766 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 48,492 · France 18,407 · Germany 8,835 · United Kingdom 3,819.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sea salt turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in sea salt?
Sea salt has about 0 kcal per 100 g, with 0 g protein, 0 g carbohydrate and 0 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Pure sea salt, no enrichment” 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 94.3 g, energy 0 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11082. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is sea salt?
Sea salt is a kind of salt.
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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: Sea 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: Sea salt
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