Ingredient dictionary
Spearmint on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Spearmint is a kind of mint. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 562 products, most often in unsweetened drinks.
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Does spearmint contain an allergen?
Spearmint 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 spearmint vegan?
Yes. Spearmint is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does spearmint have on a label?
On European labels it is “menthe verte” in French, “grüne Minze” in German and “menta verde” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.
- French
- menthe verte
- German
- grüne Minze
- Spanish
- menta verde
- Italian
- menta spicata, menta romana
- Dutch
- aarmunt, groene munt
- Portuguese
- hortelã-verde
- Polish
- mięta zielona
- Swedish
- grönmynta
- Danish
- grøn mynte
- Finnish
- viherminttu
- Czech
- máta klasnatá
- Hungarian
- fodormenta
- Croatian
- zelene metvice
Which foods contain spearmint?
Open Food Facts lists spearmint or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 562 products, most often unsweetened drinks, sweetened drinks and ready meals. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 269 · France 121 · United Kingdom 45 · Germany 22.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where spearmint turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is spearmint?
Spearmint is a kind of mint.
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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: Spearmint
- 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
- Wikipedia: Spearmint
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