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Palm kernel fat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Palm kernel fat is a kind of palm kernel oil and fat. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 2,578 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does palm kernel fat contain an allergen?
Palm kernel 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 palm kernel fat vegan?
Yes. Palm kernel fat is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does palm kernel fat have on a label?
On European labels it is “graisse de palmiste” in French, “Palmkernfett” in German and “Grasa de palmiste” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- graisse de palmiste, matière grasse de palmiste
- German
- Palmkernfett
- Spanish
- Grasa de palmiste
- Italian
- Grassi di palmisti
- Dutch
- Palm pitvet, palmpitvet
- Polish
- tłuszcz z ziaren palmowych, tłuszcz z ziarna palmowego
- Finnish
- palmuydinrasva
- Czech
- palmojádrový tuk
- Hungarian
- pálmamagzsír, pálmamag-zsír
- Croatian
- mast palminih koštica
Which foods contain palm kernel fat?
Open Food Facts lists palm kernel fat in the ingredients of 2,578 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and chocolate. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,759 · Germany 368 · Switzerland 164 · Belgium 150.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where palm kernel fat turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is palm kernel fat?
Palm kernel fat is a kind of palm kernel oil and fat.
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- Open Food Facts: Palm kernel 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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