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Vanilla seeds on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Vanilla seeds are a kind of vanilla. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 622 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Do vanilla seeds contain an allergen?
Vanilla seeds are 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.
Are vanilla seeds vegan?
Yes. Vanilla seeds are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do vanilla seeds have on a label?
On European labels they are “graines de vanille” in French, “Vanillesamen” in German and “Semillas de vainilla” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.
- French
- graines de vanille, grain de vanille
- German
- Vanillesamen
- Spanish
- Semillas de vainilla
- Italian
- semi di vaniglia
- Dutch
- vanillezaad, vanillezaadjes
- Swedish
- vaniljfrö
- Danish
- vaniljekorn
- Finnish
- vaniljansiemen, vaniljan siemenet
- Croatian
- sjemenke vanilije
Which foods contain vanilla seeds?
Open Food Facts lists vanilla seeds or a more specific kind of them in the ingredients of 622 products, most often biscuits and cakes, dairy desserts and milk and yoghurt. Most of them are sold in France, Switzerland and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 330 · Switzerland 114 · United States 83 · Germany 56.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where vanilla seeds turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are vanilla seeds?
Vanilla seeds are a kind of vanilla.
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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: Vanilla seeds
- 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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