Ingredient dictionary
Vegetable fiber on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Vegetable fiber is a kind of fiber. Some kinds of vegetable fiber carry an allergen (gluten and soy). It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 38,174 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does vegetable fiber contain an allergen?
It depends on the kind. Some kinds of vegetable fiber carry an allergen: wheat fiber, wheat stalk fiber and rye fiber contain gluten; soy fiber and soya bean fiber contain soy. A label must name the allergen, so check which kind it says.
Is vegetable fiber vegan?
Yes. Vegetable fiber is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does vegetable fiber have on a label?
In English vegetable fiber can also read “vegetable fibers”, “plant fiber” or “plant fibre”. On European labels it is “fibre végétale” in French, “pflanzliche Fasern” in German and “fibra vegetal” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- fibre végétale, fibres végétales
- German
- pflanzliche Fasern, Pflanzenfaser
- Spanish
- fibra vegetal
- Italian
- fibre vegetali, fibra vegetale
- Dutch
- plantaardige vezel, plantaardige vezels
- Portuguese
- fibra vegetal
- Polish
- Błonnik roślinny, błonniki roślinne
- Swedish
- vegetabilisk fiber, vegetabiliska fibrer
- Danish
- plantefiber, vegetabilsk fiber
- Norwegian
- vegetabilsk fiber, plantefiber
- Finnish
- kasvikuitu, kasvikuidut
- Czech
- rostlinná textilní vlákna
- Hungarian
- növényi rostok, növényi rost
- Romanian
- Fibra vegetala, fibre vegetale
- Croatian
- biljna vlakna
Which foods contain vegetable fiber?
Open Food Facts lists vegetable fiber or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 38,174 products, most often biscuits and cakes, bread and ready meals. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 11,990 · France 11,148 · United Kingdom 2,947 · Germany 2,885.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where vegetable fiber turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is vegetable fiber?
Vegetable fiber is a kind of fiber.
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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 fiber
- 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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