Is vitlök vegan?

Vitlök is the Swedish word for garlic, the edible bulb of the flowering plant Allium sativum. Cultivated globally as a vegetable and culinary seasoning, garlic consists of multiple individual cloves enclosed in a thin, papery skin. For commercial food production, the bulbs are harvested from the soil and either used fresh, minced into purees, or dehydrated and ground into flakes, granules, or powder. Vitlök frequently appears on food labels from Swedish-speaking regions in savory products such as pasta sauces, dressings, spice blends, marinades, soups, frozen meals, and snack foods.

Vitlök is vegan because it is an agricultural crop derived entirely from a plant. The cultivation, harvesting, and standard mechanical processing methods do not introduce any animal-derived substances, nor do they rely on animal byproducts as processing aids. Because it is purely botanical in origin and contains no animal ingredients, it is suitable for a vegan diet.