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Peppercorns on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Peppercorns are a kind of pepper. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 232 products, most often in ready meals.
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Do peppercorns contain an allergen?
Peppercorns are 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.
Are peppercorns vegan?
Yes. Peppercorns are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do peppercorns have on a label?
On European labels they are “grains de poivre” in French, “Pfefferkörner” in German and “pimienta en grano” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- grains de poivre
- German
- Pfefferkörner
- Spanish
- pimienta en grano
- Italian
- grani di pepe
- Swedish
- pepparkorn
- Danish
- peberkorn
- Finnish
- Pippureita
- Croatian
- papar u zrnu
Which foods contain peppercorns?
Open Food Facts lists peppercorns in the ingredients of 232 products, most often ready meals, cheese and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 110 · France 60 · Germany 31 · United Kingdom 13.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where peppercorns turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are peppercorns?
Peppercorns are a kind of pepper.
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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: Peppercorns
- 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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