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Cayenne pepper on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Cayenne pepper is a kind of spice. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 8,662 products, most often in dressings and sauces. Per 100 g: about 376 kcal and 12 g protein.
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Does Cayenne pepper contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link Cayenne pepper to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is Cayenne pepper vegan?
Yes. Cayenne pepper is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does Cayenne pepper have on a label?
In English Cayenne pepper can also read “cayenne”. On European labels it is “piment de cayenne” in French, “cayennepfeffer” in German and “pimienta de cayena” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- piment de cayenne, cayenne
- German
- cayennepfeffer, Cayenne-pfeffer
- Spanish
- pimienta de cayena, pimienta roja
- Italian
- pepe di cayenna, peperoncino di cayenna
- Dutch
- cayennepeper
- Portuguese
- pimenta-caiena
- Polish
- pieprz cayenne, pieprz kajeński
- Swedish
- cayennepeppar, cayenne
- Danish
- cayennepeber
- Norwegian
- kajennepepper, cayennepepper
- Finnish
- cayennepippuri, cayenne
- Czech
- kajenský pepř, cayenský pepř
- Hungarian
- cayennebors
- Romanian
- piper cayenne
- Croatian
- kajenski papar, kajenska paprika
Which foods contain Cayenne pepper?
Open Food Facts lists Cayenne pepper or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 8,662 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and savoury snacks. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 3,335 · France 1,756 · United Kingdom 1,428 · Germany 572.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Cayenne pepper turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in Cayenne pepper?
Cayenne pepper has about 376 kcal per 100 g, with 12 g protein, 29 g carbohydrate and 17 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Cayenne pepper” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 10 g, saturated fat 3.3 g, fibre 27 g, salt 0.08 g, energy 1,560 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11088. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is Cayenne pepper?
Cayenne pepper is a kind of spice.
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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: Cayenne 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
- Wikipedia: Cayenne pepper
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