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Ingredient dictionary

Wholemeal flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Wholemeal flour is a kind of cereal flour. Some kinds of wholemeal flour carry an allergen (gluten). It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 25,853 products, most often in bread.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20263 sourcesHow we check

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Does wholemeal flour contain an allergen?

It depends on the kind. Some kinds of wholemeal flour carry an allergen: whole wheat flour, wholemeal oat flour and wholemeal rye flour contain gluten. A label must name the allergen, so check which kind it says.

Is wholemeal flour vegan?

Yes. Wholemeal flour is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads upSome kinds contain gluten, for example whole wheat flour.

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What other names does wholemeal flour have on a label?

On European labels it is “farine complète” in French, “Vollkornmehl” in German and “harina integral” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.

French: farine complète
German: Vollkornmehl
Spanish: harina integral
Italian: farina integrale
Dutch: volkorenmeel
Polish: Mąka pełnoziarnista, pełnoziarnista mąka
Swedish: fullkornsmjöl
Danish: fuldkornsmel
Finnish: täysjyväjauho
Czech: Celozrnná mouka
Hungarian: teljes kiőrlélsű liszt
Romanian: făină integrală
Croatian: brašno iz cijelog zrna

Which foods contain wholemeal flour?

Open Food Facts lists wholemeal flour or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 25,853 products, most often bread, biscuits and cakes and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

Bread5,886
Biscuits and cakes5,426
Pasta, rice and flour2,217
Breakfast cereals1,970
Savoury snacks590
Sandwiches544

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 13,075 · France 5,101 · Germany 2,653 · Spain 1,124.

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

What kind of ingredient is wholemeal flour?

Wholemeal flour is a kind of cereal flour.

Kinds of wholemeal flourWhole wheat flour Brown rice flour Wholemeal oat flour Wholemeal rye flour Wholemeal spelt flour Wholemeal barley flour Whole grain corn flour Durum whole wheat flour Whole grain buckwheat flour Whole sorghum flour Whole grain millet flour Whole grain quinoa flour Whole grain triticale flour Whole grain amaranth flour Whole grain khorasan flour Whole grain einkorn 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.

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