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Orange essential oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Orange essential oil is a kind of essential oil. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,478 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.

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Does orange essential oil contain an allergen?

Orange essential 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.

What other names does orange essential oil have on a label?

In English orange essential oil can also read “orange oil”. On European labels it is “huile essentielle d'orange” in French, “Orangenöl” in German and “aceite esencial de naranja” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.

In Englishorange oil
French
huile essentielle d'orange, huile d'orange
German
Orangenöl
Spanish
aceite esencial de naranja, aceite esencial de piel de naranja
Italian
olio essenziale di arancio
Dutch
sinaasappelolie
Polish
olejek pomarańczowy
Swedish
apelsinolja
Danish
appelsinolie
Norwegian
appelsinolje
Finnish
appelsiiniöljy
Hungarian
narancs illóolaj, narancsos illóolaj
Croatian
eterično ulje naranče

Which foods contain orange essential oil?

Open Food Facts lists orange essential oil or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,478 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and chocolate. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.

  • Biscuits and cakes358
  • Sweets198
  • Chocolate168
  • Unsweetened drinks85
  • Sweetened drinks37
  • Pastries23

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 500 · France 378 · United Kingdom 280 · Germany 165.

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

What kind of ingredient is orange essential oil?

Orange essential oil is a kind of essential oil.

Kinds of orange essential oilBlood orange essential oil

Bravoora reads this ingredient for everyone you shop for: an allergy or intolerance, a vegan or vegetarian diet, a calorie or protein goal, and the labels on supplements and skincare too. Build a profile · For dietitians, doctors and trainers

Sources

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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Orange essential oil
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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