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Vanillin on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Vanillin is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 9,596 products, most often in sweets.

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Does vanillin contain an allergen?

Vanillin 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 vanillin vegan?

Yes. Vanillin is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does vanillin have on a label?

On European labels it is “vanilline” in French, “vainillina” in Spanish and “vanillina” in Italian. The other 7 languages are listed below.

French
vanilline, vaniline
Spanish
vainillina
Italian
vanillina
Dutch
vanilline
Portuguese
vanilina, vanillina
Polish
Wanilina
Finnish
vanilliini, vaniliini
Czech
Vanilin
Croatian
vanilin
Turkish
Vanilin

Which foods contain vanillin?

Open Food Facts lists vanillin or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 9,596 products, most often sweets, biscuits and cakes and chocolate. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Sweets2,778
  • Biscuits and cakes2,050
  • Chocolate674
  • Ice cream142
  • Milk and yoghurt116
  • Pastries106

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 5,153 · France 1,578 · Germany 531 · Spain 302.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where vanillin turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is vanillin?

Kinds of vanillinEthylvanillin

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Vanillin
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  4. Wikipedia: Vanillin

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