Ingredient dictionary
Sweet potato on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sweet potato is a kind of starchy root vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 5,605 products, most often in sweets.
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Does sweet potato contain an allergen?
Sweet potato 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 sweet potato vegan?
Yes. Sweet potato is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does sweet potato have on a label?
On European labels it is “patate douce” in French, “Süßkartoffel” in German and “patata dulce” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- patate douce, patates douces
- German
- Süßkartoffel, Süsskartoffeln
- Spanish
- patata dulce, batata
- Italian
- Patata dolce, patate dolci
- Dutch
- zoete aardappel
- Portuguese
- batata-doce
- Polish
- batat, batata
- Swedish
- sötpotatis
- Danish
- sød kartoffel
- Norwegian
- søtpotet
- Finnish
- bataatti
- Czech
- povijnice batátová
- Hungarian
- Édesburgonya
- Romanian
- Batat
- Croatian
- batat, krumpir batat
- Turkish
- Tatlı patates
Which foods contain sweet potato?
Open Food Facts lists sweet potato or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 5,605 products, most often sweets, ready meals and savoury snacks. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2,439 · France 1,238 · United Kingdom 556 · Germany 525.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sweet potato turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is sweet potato?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, sweet potato sits under starchy root vegetable and tuber.
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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 potato
- 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 potato
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