Ingredient dictionary
White cane sugar on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
White cane sugar is a kind of cane sugar. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 157 products, most often in sweets.
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Does white cane sugar contain an allergen?
White cane sugar 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 white cane sugar vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of white cane sugar are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. It is vegetarian.
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What other names does white cane sugar have on a label?
On European labels it is “sucre de canne blanc” in French, “weisser Rohrzucker” in German and “azúcar de caña blanca” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.
- French
- sucre de canne blanc
- German
- weisser Rohrzucker
- Spanish
- azúcar de caña blanca
- Italian
- zucchero di canna bianco
- Swedish
- vitt rörsocker
- Danish
- hvidt rørsukker
- Finnish
- vaalea ruokosokeri
- Hungarian
- fehér nádcukor
- Croatian
- bijeli šećer od trske
Which foods contain white cane sugar?
Open Food Facts lists white cane sugar or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 157 products, most often sweets, sweetened drinks and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 104 · United States 39 · Belgium 6 · United Kingdom 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where white cane sugar turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is white cane sugar?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, white cane sugar sits under cane sugar and white sugar.
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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: White cane sugar
- 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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