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Ingredient dictionary

Oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Oil is a kind of oil and 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 15,070 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 900 kcal and 0.2 g protein.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20265 sourcesHow we check

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Does oil contain an allergen?

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 oil vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of 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.

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.

VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.

A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.

What other names does oil have on a label?

In English oil can also read “cooking oil”. On European labels it is “huile” in French, “Öl” in German and “aceite” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.

In Englishcooking oil

French: huile, huiles
German: Öl, Speiseöl
Spanish: aceite, aceites
Italian: olio
Dutch: olie, oliën
Portuguese: óleo
Polish: oleje, olej
Swedish: olja
Danish: Olie
Norwegian: olje
Finnish: öljy, ruokaöljy
Czech: olej
Hungarian: olaj, olajok
Romanian: Ulei
Croatian: ulja, Ulje
Turkish: yağ

Which foods contain oil?

Open Food Facts lists oil or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 15,070 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and fats and spreads. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Canada.

Biscuits and cakes2,050
Sweets1,465
Fats and spreads557
Ready meals536
Pasta, rice and flour434
Savoury snacks381

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 7,412 · France 3,729 · Canada 500 · United Kingdom 492.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.

How many calories are in oil?

Oil has about 900 kcal per 100 g, with 0.2 g protein, 0 g carbohydrate and 100 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Vegetable oil -average-” (the closest food in the table) in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

900kcal per 100 g

0.2g protein

0g carbohydrate

100g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 0 g, saturated fat 14 g, fibre 0 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 3,700 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 17001 (the closest food in the table). A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is oil?

Oil is a kind of oil and fat.

Kinds of oilHydrogenated oilFish oilOnion oil Frying oilMarine oil

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