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

Palm stearin 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 356 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.

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Does palm stearin contain an allergen?

Palm stearin 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 stearin vegan?

Yes. Palm stearin 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 stearin have on a label?

In English palm stearin can also read “palm stearin vegetable oil”. On European labels it is “Stéarine de palme” in French, “Palmstearin” in German and “Stearina di palma” in Italian. The other 7 languages are listed below.

In Englishpalm stearin vegetable oil
French
Stéarine de palme
German
Palmstearin
Italian
Stearina di palma
Dutch
Palmstearine
Polish
stearyna palmowa
Swedish
palmstearin
Danish
palme stearin
Finnish
palmusteariini
Hungarian
pálmasztearin
Croatian
palmin stearin

Which foods contain palm stearin?

Open Food Facts lists palm stearin in the ingredients of 356 products, most often biscuits and cakes, bread and sweets. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and France.

  • Biscuits and cakes97
  • Bread28
  • Sweets28
  • Ice cream11
  • Fats and spreads10
  • Beans and pulses9

Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 131 · United States 100 · France 79 · Ireland 10.

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

What kind of ingredient is palm stearin?

Palm stearin is a kind of palm 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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Palm stearin
  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. Wikipedia: Palm stearin

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