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Whole grain buckwheat flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Whole grain buckwheat flour is a kind of buckwheat flour. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 169 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does whole grain buckwheat flour contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link whole grain buckwheat flour to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is whole grain buckwheat flour vegan?
Yes. Whole grain buckwheat flour is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does whole grain buckwheat flour have on a label?
On European labels it is “farine de sarrasin complète” in French, “Buchweizenvollkornmehl” in German and “farina integrale di grano saraceno” in Italian. The other 2 languages are listed below.
- French
- farine de sarrasin complète
- German
- Buchweizenvollkornmehl, Buchweizen-Vollkornmehl
- Italian
- farina integrale di grano saraceno, farina di grano saraceno integrale
- Dutch
- volkoren boekweitmeel
- Croatian
- integralno heljdino brašno
Which foods contain whole grain buckwheat flour?
Open Food Facts lists whole grain buckwheat flour in the ingredients of 169 products, most often biscuits and cakes, pasta, rice and flour and bread. Most of them are sold in Italy, the United States and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: Italy 82 · United States 51 · France 39 · Germany 14.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where whole grain buckwheat flour turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is whole grain buckwheat flour?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, whole grain buckwheat flour sits under buckwheat flour and wholemeal flour.
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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 grain buckwheat flour
- 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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