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Red chili pepper on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Red chili pepper is a kind of chili pepper. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 5,921 products, most often in dressings and sauces.

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Does red chili pepper contain an allergen?

Red chili 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 chili pepper vegan?

Yes. Red chili pepper is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does red chili pepper have on a label?

In English red chili pepper can also read “red chili”, “red chilli pepper” or “red chilli”. On European labels it is “piment rouge” in French, “roter Chili” in German and “chile rojo” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.

In Englishred chilired chilli pepperred chillired chilliesred chilered chile pepperred chilies
French
piment rouge, piments rouges
German
roter Chili, rote Chili-Schoten
Spanish
chile rojo, chiles rojos
Italian
peperoncini rossi
Dutch
rode peper, rode chilipeper
Polish
czerwona papryka chili, czerwona papryczka chili
Swedish
röd chili, röd chilipeppar
Danish
rød chili
Norwegian
rød chili pepper, rød chili
Finnish
punainen chili
Croatian
crvene papričice, crveni čili

Which foods contain red chili pepper?

Open Food Facts lists red chili pepper or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 5,921 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

  • Dressings and sauces1,359
  • Ready meals923
  • Pasta, rice and flour235
  • Savoury snacks135
  • Sandwiches96
  • Salty and fatty foods69

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2,018 · United Kingdom 1,388 · France 1,253 · Netherlands 441.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where red chili pepper turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is red chili pepper?

Red chili pepper is a kind of chili pepper.

Kinds of red chili pepperRed chili puréeRed pepper seed oilPounded red chili 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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Red chili pepper
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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