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Green and black olives on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Green and black olives are a kind of black olive. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 95 products, most often in dressings and sauces.
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Do green and black olives contain an allergen?
Green and black olives are 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.
Are green and black olives vegan?
Yes. Green and black olives are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do green and black olives have on a label?
In English green and black olives can also read “black and green olives”. On European labels they are “olives vertes et noires” in French, “grüne und schwarze Oliven” in German and “aceitunas verdes y negras” in Spanish. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- olives vertes et noires
- German
- grüne und schwarze Oliven
- Spanish
- aceitunas verdes y negras, aceitunas negras y verdes
- Italian
- olive verdi e nere
- Finnish
- vihreä ja musta oliivi, vihreät ja mustat oliivit
- Croatian
- zelene i crne masline
Which foods contain green and black olives?
Open Food Facts lists green and black olives in the ingredients of 95 products, most often dressings and sauces, oily fish and salty and fatty foods. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 50 · United States 29 · Switzerland 6 · Italy 4.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where green and black olives turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are green and black olives?
Green and black olives are a kind of black olive.
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- Open Food Facts: Green and black olives
- 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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