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Ingredient dictionary

Shallot on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Shallot is a kind of onion-family vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 7,021 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 64 kcal and 1.8 g protein.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20265 sourcesHow we check

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Does shallot contain an allergen?

Shallot 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 shallot vegan?

Yes. Shallot 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 shallot have on a label?

In English shallot can also read “shallots”. On European labels it is “échalote” in French, “Schalotte” in German and “chalota” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.

In Englishshallots

French: échalote
German: Schalotte, Schalotten
Spanish: chalota
Italian: scalogno
Dutch: sjalot, sjalotten
Portuguese: chalota
Polish: szalotka, czosnek askaloński
Swedish: schalottenlök
Danish: skalotteløg
Norwegian: sjalottløk
Finnish: salottisipuli
Czech: cibule šalotka
Hungarian: mogyoróhagyma
Romanian: hașmă
Croatian: ljutika
Turkish: arpacık soğanı

Which foods contain shallot?

Open Food Facts lists shallot or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 7,021 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and processed meat. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.

Ready meals1,875
Dressings and sauces937
Processed meat418
Pasta, rice and flour278
Fish and seafood275
Vegetables238

Products with it, by country of sale: France 4,938 · United States 998 · Germany 342 · United Kingdom 249.

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

How many calories are in shallot?

Shallot has about 64 kcal per 100 g, with 1.8 g protein, 12 g carbohydrate and 0.3 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Shallot, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

64kcal per 100 g

1.8g protein

12g carbohydrate

0.3g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 3.3 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 2.6 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 269 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 20097. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is shallot?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, shallot sits under onion-family vegetable and root vegetable.

Kinds of shallotRed shallotConcentrated shallot juice

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