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

Palm olein is a kind of palm oil. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,518 products, most often in savoury snacks.

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Does palm olein contain an allergen?

Palm olein 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 olein vegan?

Yes. Palm olein 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 olein have on a label?

In English palm olein can also read “palmolein” or “palmolein oil”. On European labels it is “Oléïne de palme” in French, “Palmolein” in German and “oleína de palma” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.

In Englishpalmoleinpalmolein oil
French
Oléïne de palme
German
Palmolein
Spanish
oleína de palma
Italian
oleina di palma
Dutch
Palmoleïne
Portuguese
oleína de palma
Finnish
palmuoleiini
Croatian
palmin olein

Which foods contain palm olein?

Open Food Facts lists palm olein or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,518 products, most often savoury snacks, biscuits and cakes and bread. Most of them are sold in India, the United States and France.

  • Savoury snacks303
  • Biscuits and cakes161
  • Bread62
  • Pasta, rice and flour33
  • Potatoes31
  • Nuts31

Products with it, by country of sale: India 499 · United States 353 · France 153 · Philippines 102.

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

What kind of ingredient is palm olein?

Palm olein is a kind of palm oil.

Kinds of palm oleinRefined palmolein oilMixture of palm oil and palm superolein

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Palm olein
  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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