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Hydrogenated palm oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Hydrogenated palm oil is a kind of hydrogenated vegetable oil. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,866 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does hydrogenated palm oil contain an allergen?
Hydrogenated palm oil 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 oil vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of hydrogenated palm oil are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.
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What other names does hydrogenated palm oil have on a label?
On European labels it is “huile de palme hydrogénée” in French, “gehärtetes Palmöl” in German and “aceite de palma hidrogenado” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.
- French
- huile de palme hydrogénée
- German
- gehärtetes Palmöl
- Spanish
- aceite de palma hidrogenado
- Italian
- olio di palma idrogenato
- Dutch
- gehydrogeneerde palmolie
- Polish
- uwodorniony olej palmowy, utwardzony olej palmowy
- Norwegian
- hydrogenert palmeolje
- Finnish
- kovetettu palmuöljy, hydrogenoitu palmuöljy
- Hungarian
- hidrogénezett pálmaolaj
Which foods contain hydrogenated palm oil?
Open Food Facts lists hydrogenated palm oil or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,866 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Canada.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 1,302 · France 242 · Canada 86 · Netherlands 45.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where hydrogenated palm oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is hydrogenated palm oil?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, hydrogenated palm oil sits under hydrogenated vegetable oil and palm oil.
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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.
- Open Food Facts: Hydrogenated palm oil
- 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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