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Ingredient dictionary

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

Wafer is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,413 products, most often in sweets. Per 100 g: about 446 kcal and 5.2 g protein.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20264 sourcesHow we check

Does wafer contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link wafer to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

What other names does wafer have on a label?

In English wafer can also read “wafers”. On European labels it is “pain azyme” in French, “oblaten” in German and “oblea” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.

In Englishwafers

French: pain azyme
German: oblaten
Spanish: oblea, obleas
Italian: cialda, ostia
Dutch: ongedesemd brood, ouwel
Polish: wafel, wafli
Finnish: Vohvelit
Croatian: napolitanka

Which foods contain wafer?

Open Food Facts lists wafer or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,413 products, most often sweets, biscuits and cakes and ice cream. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.

Sweets636
Biscuits and cakes262
Ice cream129
Chocolate26
Bread10
Ready meals5

Products with it, by country of sale: France 644 · United States 295 · Germany 171 · Spain 135.

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

How many calories are in wafer?

Wafer has about 446 kcal per 100 g, with 5.2 g protein, 66 g carbohydrate and 18 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Wafer biscuit, crunchy -thin or dry-, plain or with sugar, prepacked” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

446kcal per 100 g

5.2g protein

66g carbohydrate

18g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 38 g, saturated fat 10 g, fibre 1.8 g, salt 0.83 g, energy 1,870 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 23853. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is wafer?

Kinds of waferStarch wafer

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Sources

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.

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