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Kalamata olive on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Kalamata olive is a kind of black olive. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 606 products, most often in salty and fatty foods.
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Does Kalamata olive contain an allergen?
Kalamata olive 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 Kalamata olive vegan?
Yes. Kalamata olive is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does Kalamata olive have on a label?
On European labels it is “Olive de Kalamata” in French, “Kalamata Oliven” in German and “aceituna kalamata” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- Olive de Kalamata
- German
- Kalamata Oliven
- Spanish
- aceituna kalamata
- Italian
- olive Kalamata
- Polish
- oliwki Kalamata, oliwek Kalamata
- Finnish
- kalamata-oliivi, kalamataoliivi
- Croatian
- kalamata maslina
Which foods contain Kalamata olive?
Open Food Facts lists Kalamata olive in the ingredients of 606 products, most often salty and fatty foods, dressings and sauces and ready meals. Most of them are sold in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 416 · Germany 54 · United Kingdom 52 · France 37.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where Kalamata olive turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is Kalamata olive?
Kalamata olive is a kind of black olive.
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- Open Food Facts: Kalamata olive
- 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
- Wikipedia: Kalamata olive
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