Ingredient dictionary
Unrefined sea salt on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Unrefined sea salt is a kind of sea salt. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,034 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does unrefined sea salt contain an allergen?
Unrefined sea salt 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 sea salt vegan?
Yes. Unrefined sea salt is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does unrefined sea salt have on a label?
On European labels it is “sel marin non raffiné” in French, “unraffiniertes Meersalz” in German and “sal de mar no refinada” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- sel marin non raffiné, sel marin non traité
- German
- unraffiniertes Meersalz
- Spanish
- sal de mar no refinada, sal de mar sin refinar
- Italian
- sale marino integrale
- Dutch
- ongeraffineerd zeezout
- Swedish
- oraffinerat havssalt
- Danish
- uraffineret havsalt
- Finnish
- raffinoimaton merisuola, puhdistamaton merisuola
- Hungarian
- finomítatlan tengeri só
- Croatian
- nerafinirana morska sol
Which foods contain unrefined sea salt?
Open Food Facts lists unrefined sea salt or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,034 products, most often biscuits and cakes, ready meals and bread. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Italy.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 819 · United States 109 · Italy 104 · Belgium 14.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where unrefined sea salt turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is unrefined sea salt?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, unrefined sea salt sits under sea salt and unrefined salt.
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- Open Food Facts: Unrefined sea salt
- 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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