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Red and green bell peppers on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Red and green bell peppers are a kind of green bell pepper. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 944 products, most often in ready meals.
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Do red and green bell peppers contain an allergen?
Red and green bell peppers 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 red and green bell peppers vegan?
Yes. Red and green bell peppers are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do red and green bell peppers have on a label?
In English red and green bell peppers can also read “green and red bell peppers”. On European labels they are “poivrons rouges et verts” in French, “rote und grüne Peperoni” in German and “Morrones rojos y verdes” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- poivrons rouges et verts, poivrons verts et rouges
- German
- rote und grüne Peperoni
- Spanish
- Morrones rojos y verdes, pimiento rojo y verde
- Italian
- Peperoni dolci rossi e verdi
- Dutch
- rode en groene paprika's
- Swedish
- röd och grön paprika
- Finnish
- punainen ja vihreä paprika, punaiset ja vihreät paprikat
- Croatian
- zelena i crvena paprika
Which foods contain red and green bell peppers?
Open Food Facts lists red and green bell peppers in the ingredients of 944 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and savoury snacks. Most of them are sold in the United States, Canada and Spain.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 873 · Canada 24 · Spain 13 · France 10.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where red and green bell peppers turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are red and green bell peppers?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, red and green bell peppers sit under green bell pepper and red bell 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: Red and green bell peppers
- 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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