Food and dish guide

Flavoured oil: allergens and what’s inside

Of 45 packs of flavoured oil whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 2% list crustaceans and 2% list fish. Another 7% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts. Most list olive oil.

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Which allergens are in flavoured oil?

Of 45 packs of flavoured oil whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 2% list crustaceans, 2% list fish and 2% list sulphites. Another 7% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 4% for sesame and 2% for crustaceans. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Shellfish allergyHeads up2% list crustaceans; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for them; 2% carry a “may contain” line for molluscs.
Fish allergyHeads up2% list fish; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up2% list sulphites.
Tree nut allergyHeads up7% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts.
Sesame allergyHeads up4% carry a “may contain” line for sesame.
Mustard allergyHeads up2% carry a “may contain” line for mustard.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

What is flavoured oil usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of flavoured oil list, with the share of packs that list each: olive oil (62%), extra virgin olive oil (47%), chili pepper (38%) and sunflower oil (20%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 97 · Germany 35 · Belgium 6 · Switzerland 6.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for flavoured oil.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food is flavoured oil?

In the Open Food Facts categories, flavoured oil is a kind of vegetable oil.

Kinds of flavoured oilFlavoured olive oil

What else is flavoured oil called?

French
Huiles aromatisées
German
Aromatisierte Öle
Spanish
Aceites aromatizados
Italian
Oli aromatizzati
Dutch
Gearomatiseerde oliën
Danish
Olier med smag

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Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

  1. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  2. Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: Flavoured oil

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