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Ingredient dictionary

Spring onion on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Spring onion is a kind of onion. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 5,147 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 30 kcal and 2.6 g protein.

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

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Does spring onion contain an allergen?

Spring onion 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 spring onion vegan?

Yes. Spring onion 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 spring onion have on a label?

In English spring onion can also read “green onion”, “scallions” or “spring onions”. On European labels it is “oignon vert” in French, “Frühlingszwiebel” in German and “cebolla de primavera” in Spanish. The other 11 languages are listed below.

In Englishgreen onionscallionsspring onionsgreen onions

French: oignon vert, cébette
German: Frühlingszwiebel, Frühlingszwiebeln
Spanish: cebolla de primavera, cebolletas tiernas
Italian: cipollotto
Dutch: lente-ui, bosui
Portuguese: cebolinha
Polish: cebulka zielona, zielona cebulka
Swedish: salladslök, vårlök
Danish: forårsløg
Finnish: vihersipuli, vihersipulit
Czech: jarní cibulka
Hungarian: zöldhagyma, újhagyma
Croatian: proljetni luk
Turkish: yeşil soğan

Which foods contain spring onion?

Open Food Facts lists spring onion in the ingredients of 5,147 products, most often ready meals, pasta, rice and flour and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

Ready meals1,035
Pasta, rice and flour586
Dressings and sauces464
Fruit and vegetables132
Sandwiches110
Vegetables109

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 3,221 · United Kingdom 506 · France 470 · Germany 364.

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

How many calories are in spring onion?

Spring onion has about 30 kcal per 100 g, with 2.6 g protein, 2.1 g carbohydrate and 0.5 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Chive or spring onion, fresh” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

30kcal per 100 g

2.6g protein

2.1g carbohydrate

0.5g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 1.8 g, saturated fat 0.2 g, fibre 3.2 g, salt 0.03 g, energy 124 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11003. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is spring onion?

Spring onion is a kind of onion.

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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.

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