Ingredient dictionary
Hydrogenated vegetable fat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Hydrogenated vegetable fat is a kind of hydrogenated fat. 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 1,676 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does hydrogenated vegetable fat contain an allergen?
Hydrogenated vegetable 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 vegetable fat vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of hydrogenated vegetable fat 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.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does hydrogenated vegetable fat have on a label?
On European labels it is “graisse végétale hydrogénée” in French, “gehärtetes Pflanzenfett” in German and “Grasa vegetal hidrogenada” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.
- French
- graisse végétale hydrogénée, matière grasse végétale hydrogénée
- German
- gehärtetes Pflanzenfett
- Spanish
- Grasa vegetal hidrogenada
- Italian
- Grasso vegetale idrogenato
- Portuguese
- gordura vegetal hidrogenada, lípido vegetal hidrogenada
- Swedish
- härdat vegetabiliskt fett
- Danish
- hærdet vegetabilsk fedt
- Finnish
- kovetettu kasvirasva, hydrogenoitu kasvirasva
- Hungarian
- hidrogénezett növényi zsír
Which foods contain hydrogenated vegetable fat?
Open Food Facts lists hydrogenated vegetable fat or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,676 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and chocolate. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Mexico.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 452 · France 399 · Mexico 106 · Spain 101.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where hydrogenated vegetable fat turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is hydrogenated vegetable fat?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, hydrogenated vegetable fat sits under hydrogenated fat and vegetable fat.
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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 vegetable 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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