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Black pepper on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Black pepper is a kind of pepper. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 34,324 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 330 kcal and 13 g protein.
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Does black pepper contain an allergen?
Black pepper 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 vegan?
Yes. Black pepper is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does black pepper have on a label?
On European labels it is “poivre noir” in French, “schwarzer Pfeffer” in German and “pimienta negra” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- poivre noir
- German
- schwarzer Pfeffer, Pfeffer schwarz
- Spanish
- pimienta negra
- Italian
- pepe nero
- Dutch
- zwarte peper, zwartepeper
- Portuguese
- pimenta preta, pimenta-negra
- Polish
- czarny pieprz, pieprz czarny
- Swedish
- svartpeppar, svart peppar
- Danish
- sort peber
- Norwegian
- svart pepper, piper nigrum
- Finnish
- mustapippuri
- Czech
- pepř černý, černý pepř
- Hungarian
- feketebors, fekete bors
- Romanian
- piper negru
- Croatian
- crni papar, papar crni
- Turkish
- karabiber
Which foods contain black pepper?
Open Food Facts lists black pepper or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 34,324 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 14,048 · United Kingdom 6,338 · France 6,010 · Germany 2,142.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where black pepper turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in black pepper?
Black pepper has about 330 kcal per 100 g, with 13 g protein, 40 g carbohydrate and 7.5 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Black pepper, powder” (the closest food in the table) in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0.6 g, saturated fat 2.9 g, fibre 26 g, salt 0.04 g, energy 1,380 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11015 (the closest food in the table). A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is black pepper?
Black pepper is a kind of pepper.
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An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.
- Open Food Facts: Black pepper
- 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
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