Ingredient dictionary
Sweet and sour sauce on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sweet and sour sauce is a kind of sauce. It is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 239 products, most often in savoury snacks.
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Does sweet and sour sauce contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link sweet and sour sauce to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is sweet and sour sauce vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of sweet and sour sauce are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does sweet and sour sauce have on a label?
On European labels it is “sauce aigre-douce” in French, “Susssäure Sauce” in German and “salsa agridulce” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.
- French
- sauce aigre-douce
- German
- Susssäure Sauce
- Spanish
- salsa agridulce
- Italian
- salsa agrodolce
- Dutch
- zoetzure saus
- Portuguese
- molho agridoce
- Polish
- Sos słodko-kwaśny
- Swedish
- Sötsur sås
- Norwegian
- Sursøt saus
- Finnish
- hapanimeläkastike
- Croatian
- slatko-kiseli umak
Which foods contain sweet and sour sauce?
Open Food Facts lists sweet and sour sauce in the ingredients of 239 products, most often savoury snacks, ready meals and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 179 · United States 29 · Switzerland 9 · Spain 8.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sweet and sour sauce turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is sweet and sour sauce?
Sweet and sour sauce is a kind of sauce.
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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: Sweet and sour sauce
- 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: Sweet and sour
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