Ingredient dictionary
Sambal oelek on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sambal oelek is a kind of chili paste. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 154 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does sambal oelek contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link sambal oelek to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is sambal oelek vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of sambal oelek are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
Which foods contain sambal oelek?
Open Food Facts lists sambal oelek in the ingredients of 154 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and sandwiches. Most of them are sold in Germany, the Netherlands and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 52 · Netherlands 44 · France 37 · Belgium 23.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sambal oelek turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is sambal oelek?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, sambal oelek sits under chili paste and sambal.
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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: Sambal oelek
- 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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