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Olive oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Olive oil is a kind of vegetable oil. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 45,708 products, most often in dressings and sauces. Per 100 g: about 900 kcal and 0.3 g protein.
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Does olive oil contain an allergen?
Olive 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 olive oil vegan?
Yes. Olive oil is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does olive oil have on a label?
In English olive oil can also read “olive vegetable oil”. On European labels it is “huile d'olive” in French, “Olivenöl” in German and “aceite de oliva” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- huile d'olive, huiles végétales d'olive
- German
- Olivenöl
- Spanish
- aceite de oliva
- Italian
- olio d'oliva, olio di oliva
- Dutch
- olijfolie
- Portuguese
- azeite, azeite de oliva
- Polish
- Olej oliwkowy, oliwa z oliwek
- Swedish
- olivolja
- Danish
- olivenolie
- Norwegian
- Olivenolje
- Finnish
- oliiviöljy
- Czech
- Olivový olej
- Hungarian
- olívaolaj, olivaolaj
- Romanian
- Ulei de măsline
- Croatian
- maslinovo ulje
- Turkish
- Zeytinyağı
Which foods contain olive oil?
Open Food Facts lists olive oil or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 45,708 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and fats and spreads. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Spain.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 17,166 · United States 14,816 · Spain 3,629 · Germany 3,033.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where olive oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in olive oil?
Olive oil has about 900 kcal per 100 g, with 0.3 g protein, 0 g carbohydrate and 100 g fat. The figures are for food 17270 (the closest food in the table) in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0 g, saturated fat 15 g, fibre 0 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 3,700 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 17270 (the closest food in the table). A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is olive oil?
Olive oil is a kind of vegetable 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: Olive 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
- Wikipedia: Olive oil
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