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Garlic oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Garlic oil is a kind of garlic. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 619 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does garlic oil contain an allergen?

Garlic 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 garlic oil vegan?

Yes. Garlic oil 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 garlic oil have on a label?

On European labels it is “huile d'ail” in French, “Knoblauchöl” in German and “aceite de ajo” in Spanish. The other 3 languages are listed below.

French
huile d'ail
German
Knoblauchöl
Spanish
aceite de ajo
Italian
olio all'aglio
Polish
olej czosnkowy
Croatian
ulje od češnjaka

Which foods contain garlic oil?

Open Food Facts lists garlic oil in the ingredients of 619 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and pizzas, pies and quiches. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

  • Ready meals70
  • Dressings and sauces60
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches48
  • Pasta, rice and flour30
  • Fats and spreads17
  • Bread17

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 397 · United Kingdom 99 · France 47 · Germany 34.

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

What kind of ingredient is garlic oil?

Garlic oil is a kind of garlic.

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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: Garlic oil
  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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