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Wholemeal cereal flakes on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Wholemeal cereal flakes are a kind of wholemeal cereal. Whether they carry an allergen depends on how they were made. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 115 products, most often in breakfast cereals.
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Do wholemeal cereal flakes contain an allergen?
It depends on how they were made. Open Food Facts does not link wholemeal cereal flakes to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen they carry.
Are wholemeal cereal flakes vegan?
Yes. Wholemeal cereal flakes are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do wholemeal cereal flakes have on a label?
On European labels they are “flocons de céréales complètes” in French, “Getreidevollkornflocken” in German and “fiocchi di cereali integrali” in Italian. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- flocons de céréales complètes
- German
- Getreidevollkornflocken, Vollkornflocken
- Italian
- fiocchi di cereali integrali
- Swedish
- fullkornsflingor
- Finnish
- täysjyvähiutaleet, täysjyvähiutale
- Romanian
- fulgi de cereale integrale
- Croatian
- pahuljice od integralnih žitarica
Which foods contain wholemeal cereal flakes?
Open Food Facts lists wholemeal cereal flakes in the ingredients of 115 products, most often breakfast cereals, biscuits and cakes and bread. Most of them are sold in Germany, France and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 52 · France 37 · Belgium 12 · Romania 7.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where wholemeal cereal flakes turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are wholemeal cereal flakes?
Wholemeal cereal flakes are a kind of wholemeal cereal.
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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: Wholemeal cereal flakes
- 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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