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Black peppercorns on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Black peppercorns are a kind of black pepper. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 387 products, most often in ready meals.
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Do black peppercorns contain an allergen?
Black peppercorns are 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.
Are black peppercorns vegan?
Yes. Black peppercorns are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do black peppercorns have on a label?
On European labels they are “graines de poivre noir” in French, “schwarze Pfefferkörner” in German and “pimienta negra en grano” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- graines de poivre noir, poivre noir en grains
- German
- schwarze Pfefferkörner
- Spanish
- pimienta negra en grano
- Italian
- pepe nero in grani
- Dutch
- zwarte peperkorrels
- Finnish
- Kokonainen mustapippuri, kokonaisia mustapippureita
- Croatian
- zrna crnog papra, papar crni zrno
Which foods contain black peppercorns?
Open Food Facts lists black peppercorns in the ingredients of 387 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and salty and fatty foods. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 220 · United Kingdom 75 · France 59 · Germany 24.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where black peppercorns turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are black peppercorns?
Black peppercorns are a kind of black 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 peppercorns
- 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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