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Hydrogenated palm fat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Hydrogenated palm fat is a kind of palm fat. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 118 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does hydrogenated palm fat contain an allergen?
Hydrogenated palm fat 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 hydrogenated palm fat vegan?
Yes. Hydrogenated palm fat is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does hydrogenated palm fat have on a label?
On European labels it is “graisse de palme hydrogénée” in French, “grasa de palma hidrogenada” in Spanish and “grasso di palma idrogenato” in Italian. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- graisse de palme hydrogénée
- Spanish
- grasa de palma hidrogenada
- Italian
- grasso di palma idrogenato
- Dutch
- Gehydrogeneerd palmvet
- Polish
- utwardzony tłuszcz palmowy, tłuszcz palmowy utwardzony
- Swedish
- hydrerad palmfett
- Danish
- hydrogeneret palmefedt
- Norwegian
- hydrogenert palmefett
- Finnish
- kovetettu palmurasva
- Croatian
- hidrogenirana palmina mast
Which foods contain hydrogenated palm fat?
Open Food Facts lists hydrogenated palm fat in the ingredients of 118 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and beans and pulses. Most of them are sold in Bulgaria, France and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: Bulgaria 38 · France 21 · United States 10 · Finland 7.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where hydrogenated palm fat turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is hydrogenated palm fat?
Hydrogenated palm fat is a kind of palm fat.
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- Open Food Facts: Hydrogenated palm fat
- 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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