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Fractionated palm oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Fractionated palm oil is a kind of palm oil. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 850 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does fractionated palm oil contain an allergen?
Fractionated palm oil 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 fractionated palm oil vegan?
Yes. Fractionated palm oil is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does fractionated palm oil have on a label?
On European labels it is “Huile de palme fractionnée” in French, “Fraktioniertes Palmöl” in German and “aceite de palma fraccionado” in Spanish. The other 2 languages are listed below.
- French
- Huile de palme fractionnée
- German
- Fraktioniertes Palmöl
- Spanish
- aceite de palma fraccionado, aceite de palma fraccionada
- Italian
- olio di palma frazionato
- Croatian
- frakcioniranog palminog ulja
Which foods contain fractionated palm oil?
Open Food Facts lists fractionated palm oil or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 850 products, most often biscuits and cakes, pasta, rice and flour and pizzas, pies and quiches. Most of them are sold in the United States, Chile and Bolivia.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 721 · Chile 45 · Bolivia 32 · France 23.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where fractionated palm oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is fractionated palm oil?
Fractionated palm oil is a kind of palm oil.
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- Open Food Facts: Fractionated palm oil
- 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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