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Sichuan pepper on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sichuan pepper is a kind of spice. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 86 products, most often in pasta, rice and flour.
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Does sichuan pepper contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link sichuan pepper to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is sichuan pepper vegan?
Yes. Sichuan pepper is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does sichuan pepper have on a label?
On European labels it is “pepe di Sichuan” in Italian, “cichuan peper” in Dutch and “pieprz syczuański” in Polish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- Italian
- pepe di Sichuan
- Dutch
- cichuan peper, Sichuan peper
- Polish
- pieprz syczuański
- Swedish
- sichuanpeppar
- Danish
- sichuanpeber
- Norwegian
- sichuanpepper
- Croatian
- sečuanski papar
Which foods contain sichuan pepper?
Open Food Facts lists sichuan pepper in the ingredients of 86 products, most often pasta, rice and flour, ready meals and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 27 · United Kingdom 12 · France 11 · Australia 9.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sichuan pepper turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is sichuan pepper?
Sichuan pepper is a kind of spice.
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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: Sichuan 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
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