Ingredient dictionary
Unrefined cane sugar on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Unrefined cane sugar is a kind of cane sugar. 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 9,298 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does unrefined cane sugar contain an allergen?
Unrefined cane 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 unrefined cane sugar vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of unrefined cane 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 unrefined cane sugar have on a label?
In English unrefined cane sugar can also read “raw cane sugar” or “unrefined raw cane sugar”. On European labels it is “sucre de canne non raffiné” in French, “Rohrohrzucker” in German and “Azucar de caña sin refinar” in Spanish. The other 11 languages are listed below.
- French
- sucre de canne non raffiné, sucre de canne brut
- German
- Rohrohrzucker, Roh-Rohrzucker
- Spanish
- Azucar de caña sin refinar, azucar de caña no refinada
- Italian
- zucchero di canna grezzo
- Dutch
- Ongeraffineerde rietsuiker
- Portuguese
- açúcar de cana não refinado
- Polish
- Cukier trzcinowy nierafinowany, nierafinowany cukier trzcinowy
- Swedish
- rårörsocker
- Danish
- rå rørsukker, uraffineret rørsukker
- Norwegian
- rårørsukker
- Finnish
- raakaruokosokeri
- Czech
- nerafinovaný třtinový cukr
- Hungarian
- finomítatlan nádcukor
- Croatian
- smeđi šećer od šećerne trske, sirovi šećer od trske
Which foods contain unrefined cane sugar?
Open Food Facts lists unrefined cane sugar or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 9,298 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and chocolate. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 4,469 · Germany 2,557 · United Kingdom 853 · Switzerland 818.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where unrefined cane sugar turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is unrefined cane sugar?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, unrefined cane sugar sits under cane sugar and unrefined sugar.
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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: Unrefined cane 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
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