Ingredient dictionary
Sugar syrup on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sugar syrup is a kind of disaccharide. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 19,310 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 399 kcal and 0 g protein.
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Does sugar syrup contain an allergen?
Sugar syrup 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 syrup vegan?
Yes. Sugar syrup is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does sugar syrup have on a label?
On European labels it is “sirop de sucre” in French, “Zuckersirup” in German and “Sirope de azucar” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- sirop de sucre
- German
- Zuckersirup
- Spanish
- Sirope de azucar, jarabe de azucar
- Italian
- sciroppo di zucchero
- Dutch
- Suikerstroop
- Portuguese
- Xaropa de açúcar
- Polish
- Syrop cukrowy, syrop z cukru
- Swedish
- sockersirap
- Danish
- sukkersirup
- Norwegian
- sukkersirup, sukkerlake
- Finnish
- sokerisiirappi, sokeriliemi
- Hungarian
- cukorszirup
- Romanian
- sirop de zahăr, sirop de zahar
- Croatian
- šećerni sirup
- Turkish
- şeker şurubu
Which foods contain sugar syrup?
Open Food Facts lists sugar syrup or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 19,310 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and ice cream. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 7,615 · Germany 3,082 · United States 2,969 · United Kingdom 2,254.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sugar syrup turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in sugar syrup?
Sugar syrup has about 399 kcal per 100 g, with 0 g protein, 100 g carbohydrate and 0 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Sugar, white” (the closest food in the table) in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 100 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 0 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 1,700 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 31016 (the closest food in the table). A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is sugar syrup?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, sugar syrup sits under disaccharide and syrup.
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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 syrup
- 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
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