Ingredient dictionary
Vanilla extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Vanilla extract is a kind of vanilla. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 22,977 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does vanilla extract contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link vanilla extract to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is vanilla extract vegan?
Yes. Vanilla extract is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does vanilla extract have on a label?
On European labels it is “extrait de vanille” in French, “Vanilleextrakt” in German and “extracto de vainilla” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.
- French
- extrait de vanille
- German
- Vanilleextrakt, Vanille Extrakt
- Spanish
- extracto de vainilla, esencia de vainilla
- Italian
- estratto di vaniglia
- Dutch
- vanille-extract
- Portuguese
- extrato de baunilha, extracto de baunilha
- Polish
- ekstrakt z wanilii, ekstrakt waniliowy
- Swedish
- vaniljextrakt
- Danish
- vaniljeekstrakt, vaniljeessens
- Finnish
- vaniljauute
- Czech
- vanilkový extrakt, extrakt z vanilky
- Hungarian
- vaníliakivonat, vanília kivonat
- Romanian
- extract de vanilie
Which foods contain vanilla extract?
Open Food Facts lists vanilla extract or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 22,977 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and chocolate. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 11,321 · France 5,328 · Germany 2,953 · United Kingdom 893.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where vanilla extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is vanilla extract?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, vanilla extract sits under vanilla and vegetable extract.
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- Open Food Facts: Vanilla extract
- 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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