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Black pepper extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Black pepper extract is a kind of black pepper. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 925 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does black pepper extract contain an allergen?
Black pepper extract 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 black pepper extract vegan?
Yes. Black pepper extract is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does black pepper extract have on a label?
On European labels it is “extrait de poivre noir” in French, “schwarzer Pfefferextrakt” in German and “extracto de pimienta negra” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- extrait de poivre noir
- German
- schwarzer Pfefferextrakt
- Spanish
- extracto de pimienta negra
- Italian
- Estratto di pepe nero
- Dutch
- zwarte peperextract, zwartepeperextract
- Swedish
- svartpepparextrakt
- Finnish
- mustapippuriuute
- Croatian
- ekstrakt crnog papra
Which foods contain black pepper extract?
Open Food Facts lists black pepper extract in the ingredients of 925 products, most often ready meals, poultry and fish and seafood. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 491 · United States 149 · France 133 · Netherlands 50.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where black pepper extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is black pepper extract?
Black pepper extract is a kind of black pepper.
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- Open Food Facts: Black pepper extract
- 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
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