{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-1169/article-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-1169/article-19.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2011/1169",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-1169",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Omission of the list of ingredients",
  "text": "1. The following foods shall not be required to bear a list of ingredients:\n(a) fresh fruit and vegetables, including potatoes, which have not been peeled, cut or similarly treated;\n(b) carbonated water, the description of which indicates that it has been carbonated;\n(c) fermentation vinegars derived exclusively from a single basic product, provided that no other ingredient has been added;\n(d) cheese, butter, fermented milk and cream, to which no ingredient has been added other than lactic products, food enzymes and micro-organism cultures essential to manufacture, or in the case of cheese other than fresh cheese and processed cheese the salt needed for its manufacture;\n(e) foods consisting of a single ingredient, where:\n(i)the name of the food is identical to the ingredient name; or\n(ii)the name of the food enables the nature of the ingredient to be clearly identified.\n2. In order to take into account the relevance for the consumer of a list of ingredients for specific types or categories of foods, regulations may be made, in exceptional cases, to supplement paragraph 1 of this Article, provided that omissions do not result in the final consumer or mass caterers being inadequately informed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 19(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/778), regs. 1, 4(8); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/1169/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:47.564047+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}