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Red bell pepper on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Red bell pepper is a kind of bell pepper. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 28,107 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 37 kcal and 1.1 g protein.
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Does red bell pepper contain an allergen?
Red bell pepper 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 red bell pepper vegan?
Yes. Red bell pepper is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does red bell pepper have on a label?
In English red bell pepper can also read “red pepper” or “red capsicum”. On European labels it is “poivron rouge” in French, “rote Paprika” in German and “pimiento rojo” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- poivron rouge, poivrons rouge
- German
- rote Paprika, roter Paprika
- Spanish
- pimiento rojo, pimiento morrón rojo
- Italian
- peperoni rossi
- Dutch
- rode paprika, rode paprika's
- Portuguese
- pimento vermelho
- Polish
- papryka czerwona, czerwona papryka
- Swedish
- röd paprika
- Danish
- rød peberfrugt, rød peber
- Norwegian
- rød paprika
- Finnish
- punainen paprika
- Czech
- červená paprika
- Hungarian
- kaliforniai paprika, piros bell paprika
- Romanian
- ardei gras roșu
- Croatian
- crveni papar, crvena paprika
Which foods contain red bell pepper?
Open Food Facts lists red bell pepper or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 28,107 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and vegetables. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 14,782 · France 6,307 · United Kingdom 2,638 · Germany 1,411.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where red bell pepper turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in red bell pepper?
Red bell pepper has about 37 kcal per 100 g, with 1.1 g protein, 6 g carbohydrate and 0.3 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Sweet pepper, red, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 4.8 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 3.2 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 153 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 20087. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is red bell pepper?
Red bell pepper is a kind of 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 bell pepper
- 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
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