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Coconut butter on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Coconut butter is a kind of coconut fat. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 404 products, most often in dressings and sauces.

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Does coconut butter contain an allergen?

Coconut butter 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 coconut butter vegan?

Yes. Coconut butter is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does coconut butter have on a label?

In English coconut butter can also read “creamed coconut”. On European labels it is “Kokosbutter” in German, “manteca de coco” in Spanish and “Burro cocco” in Italian. The other 3 languages are listed below.

In Englishcreamed coconut
German
Kokosbutter
Spanish
manteca de coco
Italian
Burro cocco
Polish
masło kokosowe
Romanian
unt de cocos
Croatian
kokosov maslac

Which foods contain coconut butter?

Open Food Facts lists coconut butter in the ingredients of 404 products, most often dressings and sauces, biscuits and cakes and sweets. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and Bulgaria.

  • Dressings and sauces47
  • Biscuits and cakes44
  • Sweets34
  • Ready meals33
  • Ice cream25
  • Chocolate21

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 143 · United Kingdom 118 · Bulgaria 74 · France 42.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where coconut butter turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is coconut butter?

Coconut butter is a kind of coconut fat.

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Coconut butter
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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