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Peppermint oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Peppermint oil is a kind of peppermint. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,531 products, most often in sweets.
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Does peppermint oil contain an allergen?
Peppermint oil 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 peppermint oil vegan?
Yes. Peppermint oil is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does peppermint oil have on a label?
On European labels it is “huile de menthe poivrée” in French, “Pfefferminzöl” in German and “olio di menta piperita” in Italian. The other 8 languages are listed below.
- French
- huile de menthe poivrée
- German
- Pfefferminzöl
- Italian
- olio di menta piperita
- Dutch
- pepermuntolie
- Portuguese
- óleo de hortelã-pimenta
- Polish
- olejek z mięty pieprzowej
- Swedish
- pepparmintolja, pebermynte olie
- Danish
- pebermynteolie, pebermynte olie
- Finnish
- piparminttuöljy
- Hungarian
- borsosmentaolaj
- Croatian
- ulje peperminta
Which foods contain peppermint oil?
Open Food Facts lists peppermint oil in the ingredients of 1,531 products, most often sweets, biscuits and cakes and chocolate. Most of them are sold in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 1,172 · Germany 95 · United Kingdom 71 · France 57.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where peppermint oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is peppermint oil?
Peppermint oil is a kind of peppermint.
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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: Peppermint oil
- 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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