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Hot chili peppers on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Hot chili peppers are a kind of chili pepper. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 1,362 products, most often in ready meals.

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Do hot chili peppers contain an allergen?

Hot chili peppers 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 hot chili peppers vegan?

Yes. Hot chili peppers are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.

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 do hot chili peppers have on a label?

In English hot chili peppers can also read “hot pepper”. On European labels they are “piment fort” in French, “scharfe chilischoten” in German and “guindilla fuerte” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.

In Englishhot pepper
French
piment fort, piments forts
German
scharfe chilischoten, scharfe Pfefferoni
Spanish
guindilla fuerte
Italian
peperoncino piccante
Dutch
scherpe peperoni, scherpsmakende pepers
Finnish
tuliset chilit, tulinen chili
Hungarian
csípős paprika
Croatian
ljuta začinska paprika, peperoncini

Which foods contain hot chili peppers?

Open Food Facts lists hot chili peppers in the ingredients of 1,362 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and savoury snacks. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.

  • Ready meals293
  • Dressings and sauces220
  • Savoury snacks70
  • Oily fish66
  • Salty and fatty foods48
  • Processed meat46

Products with it, by country of sale: France 928 · United States 256 · Germany 74 · Italy 48.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where hot chili peppers turn up, not how much of the market they are.

What kind of ingredient are hot chili peppers?

Hot chili peppers are a kind of chili 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: Hot chili peppers
  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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