Ingredient dictionary
Peppermint on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Peppermint is a kind of mint. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 3,117 products, most often in sweets.
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Does peppermint contain an allergen?
Peppermint 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 vegan?
Yes. Peppermint is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does peppermint have on a label?
On European labels it is “menthe poivrée” in French, “Pfefferminz” in German and “menta piperita” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- menthe poivrée
- German
- Pfefferminz, Pfefferminze
- Spanish
- menta piperita, piperita
- Italian
- menta piperita
- Dutch
- pepermunt
- Portuguese
- hortelã-pimenta
- Polish
- mięta pieprzowa, mięty pieprzowej
- Swedish
- pepparmynta
- Danish
- pebermynte
- Norwegian
- peppermynte
- Finnish
- piparminttu
- Czech
- máta peprná
- Hungarian
- borsmenta
- Romanian
- izmă bună
- Croatian
- paprena metvica, paprene metvice
- Turkish
- bahçe nanesi
Which foods contain peppermint?
Open Food Facts lists peppermint or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 3,117 products, most often sweets, unsweetened drinks and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 1,702 · France 513 · Germany 412 · United Kingdom 126.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where peppermint turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is peppermint?
Peppermint is a kind of mint.
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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
- 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
- Wikipedia: Peppermint
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