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Refined palm oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Refined palm oil is a kind of palm oil. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 480 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does refined palm oil contain an allergen?
Refined palm 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 refined palm oil vegan?
Yes. Refined palm oil is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does refined palm oil have on a label?
On European labels it is “huile de palme raffinée” in French, “Raffiniertes Palmöl” in German and “Aceite de palma refinado” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- huile de palme raffinée
- German
- Raffiniertes Palmöl
- Spanish
- Aceite de palma refinado
- Italian
- Olio di palma raffinato
- Dutch
- Verfijnde palmolie
- Polish
- olej palmowy rafinowany, rafinowany olej palmowy
- Croatian
- rafinirano palmino ulje
Which foods contain refined palm oil?
Open Food Facts lists refined palm oil in the ingredients of 480 products, most often biscuits and cakes, pasta, rice and flour and bread. Most of them are sold in India, France and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: India 201 · France 87 · United States 48 · Germany 34.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where refined palm oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is refined palm oil?
Refined palm oil is a kind of palm oil.
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- Open Food Facts: Refined palm 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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