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Cracked black pepper on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Cracked black pepper is a kind of black pepper. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 945 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does cracked black pepper contain an allergen?
Cracked 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 cracked black pepper vegan?
Yes. Cracked black pepper is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does cracked black pepper have on a label?
On European labels it is “poivre noir concassé” in French, “zerstoßener schwarzer Pfeffer” in German and “Pepe nero macerato” in Italian. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- poivre noir concassé
- German
- zerstoßener schwarzer Pfeffer, schwarzer Pfeffer zerstoßen
- Italian
- Pepe nero macerato
- Dutch
- grove zwarte peper
- Finnish
- mustapippurirouhe, rouhittu mustapippuri
- Romanian
- piper negru măcinat
- Croatian
- mljeveni crni papar
Which foods contain cracked black pepper?
Open Food Facts lists cracked black pepper in the ingredients of 945 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and sandwiches. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, France and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 467 · France 147 · United States 135 · Russia 108.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cracked black pepper turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is cracked black pepper?
Cracked black pepper is 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: Cracked 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
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