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Heart of palm on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Heart of palm is a kind of shoot vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 205 products, most often in vegetables.

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Does heart of palm contain an allergen?

Heart of palm 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 heart of palm vegan?

Yes. Heart of palm 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 heart of palm have on a label?

In English heart of palm can also read “Hearts of palm” or “palm heart”. On European labels it is “Cœur de palmier” in French, “Palmherzen” in German and “palmito” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.

In EnglishHearts of palmpalm heart
French
Cœur de palmier, cœurs de palmiers
German
Palmherzen, Palmherz
Spanish
palmito, corazón de palmito
Italian
palmito, cuore di palma
Dutch
Palmharten
Portuguese
palmito, coração de palmeira
Polish
serce palmy, serca palmy
Swedish
Palmhjärta
Finnish
Palmun sydän
Croatian
srce dlana

Which foods contain heart of palm?

Open Food Facts lists heart of palm or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 205 products, most often vegetables, ready meals and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Spain.

  • Vegetables68
  • Ready meals11
  • Pasta, rice and flour9
  • Savoury snacks1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 100 · United States 78 · Spain 11 · Italy 7.

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

What kind of ingredient is heart of palm?

Heart of palm is a kind of shoot vegetable.

Kinds of heart of palmRaw heart of palm

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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: Heart of palm
  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. Wikipedia: Heart of palm

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