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Palm sugar on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Palm sugar is a kind of sugar. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 3,113 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does palm sugar contain an allergen?
Palm sugar 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 sugar vegan?
Yes. Palm sugar is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does palm sugar have on a label?
On European labels it is “sucre de palme” in French, “Palmenzucker” in German and “Azúcar de palma” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- sucre de palme
- German
- Palmenzucker
- Spanish
- Azúcar de palma
- Italian
- Zucchero di palma
- Dutch
- Palmsuiker
- Polish
- cukier palmowy
- Swedish
- palmsocker
- Danish
- palmesukker
- Finnish
- Palmusokeri
- Croatian
- palmin šećer
Which foods contain palm sugar?
Open Food Facts lists palm sugar or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 3,113 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and breakfast cereals. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 1,641 · France 593 · United Kingdom 255 · Germany 246.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where palm sugar turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is palm sugar?
Palm sugar is a kind of sugar.
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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.
- Open Food Facts: Palm sugar
- 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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