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Spice extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Spice extract is a kind of spice. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 16,374 products, most often in processed meat.

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Does spice extract contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link spice extract to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is spice extract vegan?

Yes. Spice extract 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 spice extract have on a label?

In English spice extract can also read “spices extract”. On European labels it is “extrait d'épice” in French, “Gewürz Extrakte” in German and “Extracto de especias” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.

In Englishspices extract
French
extrait d'épice, extraits d'épices
German
Gewürz Extrakte, Gewürzextrakte
Spanish
Extracto de especias
Italian
Estratto di spezie
Dutch
specerijenextracten, specerij-extracten
Polish
ekstrakt z przyprawy, ekstrakty przypraw
Finnish
mausteuute, mausteuutteet
Czech
extrakty koření
Hungarian
fűszerkivonat, fűszerkivonatok

Which foods contain spice extract?

Open Food Facts lists spice extract or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 16,374 products, most often processed meat, ready meals and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in Germany, France and the United States.

  • Processed meat3,478
  • Ready meals2,147
  • Dressings and sauces964
  • Poultry933
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches747
  • Meat658

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 5,735 · France 5,023 · United States 1,245 · Switzerland 1,136.

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

What kind of ingredient is spice extract?

Spice extract is a kind of spice.

Kinds of spice extractNatural spice extract

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Spice extract
  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

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