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

Palm oil is a kind of palm oil and fat. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 87,435 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 900 kcal and 0 g protein.

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Does palm oil contain an allergen?

Palm 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 palm oil vegan?

Yes. Palm oil is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does palm oil have on a label?

In English palm oil can also read “palmoil”, “sustainable palm fruit oil” or “palm vegetable oil”. On European labels it is “huile de palme” in French, “Palmöl” in German and “aceite de palma” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.

In Englishpalmoilsustainable palm fruit oilpalm vegetable oilvegetable palm oil
French
huile de palme, huile végétale de palme
German
Palmöl, Ölpalme
Spanish
aceite de palma, aceite vegetal de palma
Italian
olio di palma, olio vegetale di palma
Dutch
palmolie, palm olie
Portuguese
óleo de palma, óleo de palmeira
Polish
Olej palmowy, olej roślinny palmowy
Swedish
Palmolja
Danish
Palmeolie
Norwegian
Palmeolje
Finnish
Palmuöljy, sg-palmu
Czech
palmový olej
Hungarian
pálmaolaj
Romanian
Ulei de palmier, ulei vegetal de palmier
Croatian
palmino ulje, ulja od palme
Turkish
Palm yağı, hurma yağı

Which foods contain palm oil?

Open Food Facts lists palm oil or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 87,435 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.

  • Biscuits and cakes25,391
  • Sweets8,550
  • Pasta, rice and flour3,199
  • Bread2,235
  • Ready meals2,066
  • Savoury snacks2,025

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 41,789 · France 17,909 · United Kingdom 7,262 · Germany 6,108.

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

How many calories are in palm oil?

Palm oil has about 900 kcal per 100 g, with 0 g protein, 0 g carbohydrate and 100 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Palm oil” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

900kcal per 100 g
0g protein
0g carbohydrate
100g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 0 g, saturated fat 49 g, fibre 0 g, salt 0 g, energy 3,700 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 16129. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is palm oil?

Palm oil is a kind of palm oil and fat.

Kinds of palm oilPalmHydrogenated palm oilPalm oleinModified palm oilPalm and palm kernel oilFractionated palm oilNon-hydrogenated palm oilRefined palm oilPalm stearinRed palm fruit oilBabassu oilPalm or palm kernel oilOrganic palm oilSustainable palm oilMixture of palm oil and palm superolein

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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: Palm 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
  4. ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
  5. Wikipedia: Palm oil

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