Ingredient dictionary
Sugar beet on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sugar beet is a kind of root vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 135 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does sugar beet contain an allergen?
Sugar beet 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 sugar beet vegan?
Yes. Sugar beet is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does sugar beet have on a label?
On European labels it is “betterave sucrière” in French, “zuckerrübe” in German and “barbabietola da zucchero” in Italian. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- betterave sucrière
- German
- zuckerrübe
- Italian
- barbabietola da zucchero
- Dutch
- suikerbiet
- Portuguese
- beterraba-sacarina
- Polish
- burak cukrowy
- Swedish
- sockerbeta
- Danish
- sukkerroe
- Norwegian
- sukkerbete
- Finnish
- sokerijuurikas
- Czech
- cukrová řepa
- Hungarian
- cukorrépa
- Romanian
- sfeclă de zahăr
- Croatian
- šećerna repa, šećerne repice
- Turkish
- şeker pancarı
Which foods contain sugar beet?
Open Food Facts lists sugar beet in the ingredients of 135 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and bread. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 43 · United States 34 · Germany 21 · Netherlands 13.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sugar beet turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is sugar beet?
Sugar beet is a kind of root vegetable.
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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: Sugar beet
- 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: Sugar beet
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