Ingredient dictionary
Wild garlic on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Wild garlic is a kind of garlic. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 514 products, most often in cheese.
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Does wild garlic contain an allergen?
Wild garlic 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 wild garlic vegan?
Yes. Wild garlic is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does wild garlic have on a label?
In English wild garlic can also read “ramsons”, “buckrams” or “broad-leaved garlic”. On European labels it is “ail des ours” in French, “bärlauch” in German and “allium ursinum” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- ail des ours
- German
- bärlauch
- Spanish
- allium ursinum
- Italian
- aglio orsino
- Dutch
- daslook
- Portuguese
- allium ursinum
- Polish
- czosnek niedźwiedzi
- Swedish
- ramslök
- Danish
- ramsløg
- Norwegian
- ramsløk
- Finnish
- karhunlaukka, villivalkosipuli
- Czech
- česnek medvědí
- Hungarian
- medvehagyma
- Romanian
- leurdă
- Croatian
- medvjeđi luk
Which foods contain wild garlic?
Open Food Facts lists wild garlic in the ingredients of 514 products, most often cheese, dressings and sauces and ready meals. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 182 · Germany 178 · Switzerland 45 · United Kingdom 40.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where wild garlic turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is wild garlic?
Wild garlic is a kind of garlic.
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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: Wild garlic
- 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
- Wikipedia: Allium ursinum
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