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

Palm 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 17,366 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.

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Does palm contain an allergen?

Palm 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 vegan?

Yes. Palm 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 have on a label?

On European labels it is “palme” in French, “Palme” in German and “palma” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.

French
palme
German
Palme
Spanish
palma
Italian
palma
Portuguese
palma
Polish
palma
Danish
palme
Norwegian
palme
Finnish
palmu
Czech
Palmový
Hungarian
pálma
Romanian
palmier
Croatian
palma, palmina

Which foods contain palm?

Open Food Facts lists palm in the ingredients of 17,366 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and chocolate. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Biscuits and cakes6,055
  • Sweets1,778
  • Chocolate640
  • Pasta, rice and flour485
  • Bread309
  • Ice cream292

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 6,719 · France 2,527 · Germany 2,187 · United Kingdom 1,376.

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

What kind of ingredient is palm?

Palm 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
  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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