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Green bell pepper on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Green bell pepper is a kind of bell pepper. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 6,107 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 26 kcal and 0.8 g protein.

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Does green bell pepper contain an allergen?

Green bell 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 green bell pepper vegan?

Yes. Green bell pepper 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 green bell pepper have on a label?

On European labels it is “poivron vert” in French, “grüne Peperoni” in German and “pimiento verde” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.

French
poivron vert, poivrons verts
German
grüne Peperoni
Spanish
pimiento verde, pimientos verdes
Italian
peperoni verdi
Dutch
groene paprika
Portuguese
pimentos verdes
Polish
zielona papryka, papryka zielona
Swedish
Grön paprika
Danish
Grøn peber
Finnish
vihreä paprika
Czech
zelená paprika
Croatian
zelena paprika

Which foods contain green bell pepper?

Open Food Facts lists green bell pepper or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 6,107 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and vegetables. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Spain.

  • Ready meals1,256
  • Dressings and sauces923
  • Vegetables252
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches205
  • Savoury snacks177
  • Poultry101

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 3,669 · France 1,579 · Spain 233 · Canada 157.

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

How many calories are in green bell pepper?

Green bell pepper has about 26 kcal per 100 g, with 0.8 g protein, 3.4 g carbohydrate and 0.3 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Sweet pepper, green, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

26kcal per 100 g
0.8g protein
3.4g carbohydrate
0.3g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 3 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 3.2 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 109 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 20085. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is green bell pepper?

Green bell pepper is a kind of bell pepper.

Kinds of green bell pepperRed and green bell peppersItalian bell 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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Green bell pepper
  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
  4. ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0

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