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Sunflower fat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sunflower fat is a kind of vegetable fat. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 231 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does sunflower fat contain an allergen?
Sunflower fat 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 sunflower fat vegan?
Yes. Sunflower fat is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does sunflower fat have on a label?
On European labels it is “Matière grasse issue du tournesol” in French, “Sonnenblumenfett” in German and “olio idrogenato di semi di girasole” in Italian. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- Matière grasse issue du tournesol, matière grasse de tournesol
- German
- Sonnenblumenfett
- Italian
- olio idrogenato di semi di girasole
- Polish
- tłuszcz słonecznikowy, tłuszcz roślinny słonecznikowy
- Finnish
- auringonkukkarasva
- Hungarian
- napraforgózsír
- Croatian
- suncokretova mast
Which foods contain sunflower fat?
Open Food Facts lists sunflower fat or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 231 products, most often biscuits and cakes, margarine and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in Germany, France and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 120 · France 55 · Switzerland 51 · Austria 17.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sunflower fat turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is sunflower fat?
Sunflower fat is a kind of vegetable fat.
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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: Sunflower fat
- 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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