Ingredient dictionary
Coconut fat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Coconut fat is a kind of coconut. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 5,373 products, most often in ice cream. Per 100 g: about 900 kcal and 0 g protein.
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Does coconut fat contain an allergen?
Coconut fat 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 fat vegan?
Yes. Coconut fat is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does coconut fat have on a label?
On European labels it is “matière grasse de noix de coco” in French, “Kokosfett” in German and “grasa de coco” in Spanish. The other 11 languages are listed below.
- French
- matière grasse de noix de coco, graisse de noix de coco
- German
- Kokosfett, Kokosnussfett
- Spanish
- grasa de coco, grasa vegetal de coco
- Italian
- grasso di cocco
- Dutch
- kokosvet
- Portuguese
- gordura de coco, lípido de coco
- Polish
- tłuszcz kokosowy, tłuszcz roślinny kokosowy
- Swedish
- kokosfett, kokosnötfett
- Danish
- kokosfedt
- Norwegian
- kokosfett
- Finnish
- kookosrasva, kookosrasvaa
- Czech
- kokosový tuk
- Hungarian
- kókuszzsír
- Croatian
- kokosova mast
Which foods contain coconut fat?
Open Food Facts lists coconut fat or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 5,373 products, most often ice cream, biscuits and cakes and sweets. Most of them are sold in Germany, France and Spain.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 2,040 · France 914 · Spain 673 · Switzerland 381.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where coconut fat turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in coconut fat?
Coconut fat has about 900 kcal per 100 g, with 0 g protein, 0 g carbohydrate and 100 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Coconut fat or oil” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0 g, saturated fat 84 g, fibre 0 g, salt 0 g, energy 3,700 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 16040. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is coconut fat?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, coconut fat sits under coconut and vegetable 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.
- Open Food Facts: Coconut fat
- 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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