Ingredient dictionary
Whole cane sugar on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Whole cane sugar is a kind of unrefined 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 813 products, most often in chocolate.
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Does whole cane sugar contain an allergen?
Whole 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 whole cane sugar vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of whole 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 whole cane sugar have on a label?
On European labels it is “sucre de canne complet” in French, “Vollrohrzucker” in German and “azucar de caña integral” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- sucre de canne complet, suc de canne intégral
- German
- Vollrohrzucker
- Spanish
- azucar de caña integral, azucar integral de caña
- Italian
- zucchero di canna integrale
- Dutch
- ruwe rietsuiker
- Finnish
- täysruokosokeri
- Croatian
- cijeli šećer od trske
Which foods contain whole cane sugar?
Open Food Facts lists whole cane sugar or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 813 products, most often chocolate, breakfast cereals and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Spain.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 376 · Germany 175 · Spain 165 · Netherlands 46.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where whole cane sugar turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is whole cane sugar?
Whole cane sugar is a kind of unrefined cane 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: Whole 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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