Ingredient dictionary
Tomato on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Tomato is a kind of fruit vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 93,231 products, most often in dressings and sauces. Per 100 g: about 19 kcal and 0.9 g protein.
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Does tomato contain an allergen?
Tomato 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 tomato vegan?
Yes. Tomato is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does tomato have on a label?
In English tomato can also read “tomatoes”. On European labels it is “tomate” in French, “Tomate” in German and “tomate” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- tomate, tomates
- German
- Tomate, Tomaten
- Spanish
- tomate, tomates
- Italian
- pomodoro, pomodori
- Dutch
- tomaat, tomaten
- Portuguese
- tomate, tomates
- Polish
- Pomidor, pomidory
- Swedish
- tomat, tomater
- Danish
- tomat, tomater
- Norwegian
- tomat, tomater
- Finnish
- tomaatti, tomaatit
- Czech
- rajče, rajčata
- Hungarian
- paradicsom
- Romanian
- roșie, roșii
- Croatian
- rajčica, rajčice
- Turkish
- domates
Which foods contain tomato?
Open Food Facts lists tomato or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 93,231 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and pizzas, pies and quiches. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 33,626 · France 27,779 · Germany 9,819 · United Kingdom 6,729.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where tomato turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in tomato?
Tomato has about 19 kcal per 100 g, with 0.9 g protein, 2.5 g carbohydrate and 0.3 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Tomato, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 2.5 g, saturated fat 0.1 g, fibre 1.2 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 81 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 20047. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is tomato?
Tomato is a kind of fruit 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: Tomato
- 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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