Ingredient dictionary
Vegetable extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Vegetable extract is a kind of extract. Some kinds of vegetable extract carry an allergen (gluten). Open Food Facts finds it in 28,601 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does vegetable extract contain an allergen?
It depends on the kind. Some kinds of vegetable extract carry an allergen: malt extract and dried malt extract contain gluten. A label must name the allergen, so check which kind it says.
Is vegetable extract vegan?
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What other names does vegetable extract have on a label?
In English vegetable extract can also read “vegetable extracts”. On European labels it is “extraits végétaux” in French, “Gemüseextrakte” in German and “Extrato vegetal” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- extraits végétaux
- German
- Gemüseextrakte
- Spanish
- Extrato vegetal, extratos vegetales
- Italian
- estratto vegetale, estratti vegetali
- Dutch
- plantaardig extract, plantaardige extracten
- Portuguese
- extrato de vegetais, extracto de vegetais
- Polish
- ekstrakty warzyw, ekstrakt warzyw
- Swedish
- grönsaksextrakt
- Finnish
- kasvisuute, kasvisuutteet
- Croatian
- biljni ekstrakt, biljni ekstrakti sa svojstvom
Which foods contain vegetable extract?
Open Food Facts lists vegetable extract or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 28,601 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 12,765 · France 6,847 · Germany 3,496 · United Kingdom 1,289.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where vegetable extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is vegetable extract?
Vegetable extract is a kind of extract.
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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: Vegetable 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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