Ingredient dictionary
Sugar on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sugar is a kind of disaccharide. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 524,712 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 399 kcal and 0 g protein.
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Does sugar contain an allergen?
Sugar 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 vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of sugar are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. It is vegetarian.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does sugar have on a label?
On European labels it is “sucre” in French, “Zucker” in German and “azúcar” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- sucre, divers sucres
- German
- Zucker, verschiedene Zuckerarten
- Spanish
- azúcar, azúcares
- Italian
- zucchero, zuccheri
- Dutch
- suiker, Tafelsuiker
- Portuguese
- Açúcar, diversos açúcares
- Polish
- cukier, cukier spożywczy
- Swedish
- socker, diverse sockerarter
- Danish
- sukker, diverse sukkerarter
- Norwegian
- sukker, diverse sukkertyper
- Finnish
- sokeri, sokeria
- Czech
- Cukr
- Hungarian
- cukor
- Romanian
- Zahăr, zahar
- Croatian
- šećeri, šećer
- Turkish
- Şeker
Which foods contain sugar?
Open Food Facts lists sugar or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 524,712 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 199,061 · France 148,096 · Germany 49,133 · United Kingdom 27,678.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sugar turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in sugar?
Sugar 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?
Sugar is a kind of disaccharide.
Bravoora reads this ingredient for everyone you shop for: an allergy or intolerance, a vegan or vegetarian diet, a calorie or protein goal, and the labels on supplements and skincare too. Build a profile · For dietitians, doctors and trainers
Sources
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
- 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
- Wikipedia: Sugar
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