Malt vinegar: version 1
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| 1 | 1 | # Malt vinegar <!--ingredient--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: Malt vinegar | |
| 5 | + | name.de: Malzessig | |
| 6 | + | name.fr: Vinaigre de malt | |
| 7 | + | vegan: yes | |
| 8 | + | vegetarian: yes | |
| 5 | 9 | allergen: gluten | |
| 10 | + | parent: ingredient/vinegar | |
| 6 | 11 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 7 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 13 | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 9 | − | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 10 | − | | ------------ | ---------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | |
| 11 | − | | derived_from | ingredient/barley-malt | | | | | printed | ^pack-2025 | Printed as dried BARLEY malt vinegar with barley in bold as the allergen | | |
| 14 | + | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 15 | + | | ------------ | ---------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 16 | + | | is_a | ingredient/vinegar | | | | | sourced | ^fda | Vinegar type 3 in FDA CPG 525.825: the product made by the alcoholic and subsequent acetous fermentations, without distillation, of an infusion of barley malt or cereals whose starch has been converted by malt | | |
| 17 | + | | derived_from | ingredient/barley-malt | | | | | printed | ^pack-2025 | Printed as dried BARLEY malt vinegar with barley in bold as the allergen | | |
| 18 | + | | contains | ingredient/acetic-acid | | | | | sourced | ^fda | CPG 525.825 expects each named vinegar type, malt vinegar among them, to hold 4 g of acetic acid per 100 mL at 20 °C | | |
| 12 | 19 | <!--/relations--> | |
| 13 | 20 | ||
| 14 | 21 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 15 | 22 | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 16 | 23 | | ------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 17 | 24 | | vinaigre de malt | name | fr | | | | |
| 18 | 25 | | Malzessig | name | de | | | | |
| 19 | 26 | | Barley malt vinegar | search | en | | | | |
| 27 | + | | Alegar | search | en | | | | |
| 20 | 28 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 21 | 29 | ||
| 30 | + | ## Meta <!--meta--> | |
| 31 | + | title: Malt vinegar | |
| 32 | + | description: Malt vinegar in ingredient lists: the undistilled barley-malt vinegar of FDA type 3, why it must declare barley as gluten, and why FDA bars it from gluten-free foods. | |
| 33 | + | <!--/meta--> | |
| 34 | + | ||
| 22 | 35 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 23 | − | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
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| 25 | − | | pack-2025 | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/506/004/264/0690/17.jpg | Tyrrells sea salt & cider vinegar 40g: back of pack (ingredients, nutrition, addresses) | 2026-09-13 | Open Food Facts contributors | pack | 2025-03-24 | 5060042640690 | Uploads 17 (back), 13 (front), 14 (ingredients), 15 (nutrition) | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | | | |
| 26 | − | | pack-2019 | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/506/004/264/0690/7.jpg | Tyrrells sea salt & cider vinegar 40g: multilingual ingredients and nutrition panel | 2026-09-13 | Open Food Facts contributors | pack | 2019-12-22 | 5060042640690 | Uploads 7 (French ingredients), 8 (nutrition panel) | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | | | |
| 36 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 37 | + | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------------------------------- | ----------- | ---------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- | ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 38 | + | | pack-2025 | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/506/004/264/0690/17.jpg | Tyrrells sea salt & cider vinegar 40g: back of pack (ingredients, nutrition, addresses) | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts contributors | pack | 2025-03-24 | 5060042640690 | Uploads 17 (back), 13 (front), 14 (ingredients), 15 (nutrition) | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | | | |
| 39 | + | | pack-2019 | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/506/004/264/0690/7.jpg | Tyrrells sea salt & cider vinegar 40g: multilingual ingredients and nutrition panel | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts contributors | pack | 2019-12-22 | 5060042640690 | Uploads 7 (French ingredients), 8 (six-language panel and the Suitable for vegans tick) | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | | | |
| 40 | + | | fda | https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/cpg-sec-525825-vinegar-definitions-adulteration-vinegar-eels | CPG Sec 525.825 Vinegar, Definitions - Adulteration with Vinegar Eels | 2026-09-14 | U.S. Food and Drug Administration | registry | 1995-03 | | I. Definitions, Policy, vinegar type 3 (malt vinegar); issued 1977-04-25, last revised 3/95 | public-domain | | | | |
| 41 | + | | fda-gf-qa | https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-food-labeling-and-critical-foods/questions-and-answers-gluten-free-food-labeling-final-rule | Questions and Answers on the Gluten-Free Food Labeling Final Rule | 2026-09-14 | U.S. Food and Drug Administration | registry | | | For Industry: "Can Malt vinegar be used in foods bearing a gluten-free claim?" | public-domain | | | | |
| 42 | + | | eu-allergens | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/1169/annex/II/2020-12-31 | Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, Annex II: substances or products causing allergies or intolerances | 2026-09-14 | legislation.gov.uk | registry | 2020-12-31 | | Point 1, cereals containing gluten, and its four exceptions (a) to (d) | ogl-v3.0 | | | | |
| 43 | + | | wiki-vinegar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar | Wikipedia: Vinegar | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | History, Grains (malt vinegar and alegar), Culinary uses | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 44 | + | | us-glutenfree | https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/101.91 | 21 CFR 101.91: Gluten-free labeling of food | 2026-09-14 | Legal Information Institute | registry | | | (a)(1)(iii) barley, (a)(3)(i)(A)(2), and (c)(2)(i) with (c)(3) on fermented ingredients | public-domain | | https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-101.91 | | |
| 27 | 45 | <!--/references--> | |
| 28 | 46 | ||
| 29 | 47 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 30 | − | Malt vinegar is vinegar brewed from malted barley; Tyrrells sea salt and cider vinegar crisps list dried BARLEY malt vinegar with barley emphasised as a gluten-containing allergen.[^pack-2025] The 2019 French label prints it as vinaigre de malt déshydraté (orge).[^pack-2019] | |
| 48 | + | Malt vinegar is a vinegar brewed, without distillation, from an infusion of barley malt or of cereals whose starch has been converted by malt; United States labelling policy lists it as vinegar type 3 and expects it, like every named vinegar, to hold 4 grams of acetic acid per 100 mL at 20 °C.[^fda] With salt it is the traditional seasoning for fish and chips, in the United Kingdom and Canada a popular dressing for fried potatoes generally, and a common flavouring for crisps, where it is often used dried.[^wiki-vinegar] Because it is fermented from barley and never distilled it declares gluten: barley is a point 1 cereal in Annex II of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, and none of that point's four exceptions — wheat glucose syrups, wheat maltodextrins, barley glucose syrups and cereals used for alcoholic distillates — reaches an undistilled malt vinegar.[^eu-allergens][^fda] Tyrrells sea salt and cider vinegar crisps print dried BARLEY malt vinegar with barley emphasised.[^pack-2025] | |
| 49 | + | ||
| 50 | + | Malt vinegar developed in England in the late Middle Ages, where it was first known as alegar: barley is malted so that its starch turns to maltose, an ale is brewed from that maltose and then allowed to sour and age, which gives the light-brown colour.[^wiki-vinegar] The substrate is malted cereal worked on by yeast and acetic acid bacteria with no animal input, and the Tyrrells pack whose list carries dried barley malt vinegar is itself ticked Suitable for vegans; a flavoured or blended preparation is judged on its own ingredients.[^fda][^pack-2019] In the United States the barley origin bars a gluten-free claim outright rather than merely complicating it: barley is a gluten-containing grain, and FDA answers the question directly: because malt vinegar is derived from barley, undergoes fermentation and has not been processed to remove gluten, it cannot be used in foods bearing a gluten-free claim.[^fda-gf-qa] The records route that 21 CFR 101.91 opens for fermented ingredients is closed to it, because those records must show the ingredient was gluten-free before fermentation, which an infusion of barley malt never is.[^us-glutenfree] The 2019 French label of the same crisps prints it as vinaigre de malt déshydraté (orge).[^pack-2019] | |
| 31 | 51 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# Malt vinegar <!--ingredient-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Malt vinegar
allergen: gluten
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------ | ---------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| derived_from | ingredient/barley-malt | | | | | printed | ^pack-2025 | Printed as dried BARLEY malt vinegar with barley in bold as the allergen |
<!--/relations-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| vinaigre de malt | name | fr | | |
| Malzessig | name | de | | |
| Barley malt vinegar | search | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------- | ---- | ---------- | ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| pack-2025 | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/506/004/264/0690/17.jpg | Tyrrells sea salt & cider vinegar 40g: back of pack (ingredients, nutrition, addresses) | 2026-09-13 | Open Food Facts contributors | pack | 2025-03-24 | 5060042640690 | Uploads 17 (back), 13 (front), 14 (ingredients), 15 (nutrition) | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| pack-2019 | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/506/004/264/0690/7.jpg | Tyrrells sea salt & cider vinegar 40g: multilingual ingredients and nutrition panel | 2026-09-13 | Open Food Facts contributors | pack | 2019-12-22 | 5060042640690 | Uploads 7 (French ingredients), 8 (nutrition panel) | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Malt vinegar is vinegar brewed from malted barley; Tyrrells sea salt and cider vinegar crisps list dried BARLEY malt vinegar with barley emphasised as a gluten-containing allergen.[^pack-2025] The 2019 French label prints it as vinaigre de malt déshydraté (orge).[^pack-2019]
<!--/about-->