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Totally hydrogenated palm fat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Totally hydrogenated palm fat is a kind of palm fat. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 210 products, most often in beans and pulses.

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Does totally hydrogenated palm fat contain an allergen?

Totally hydrogenated palm 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 totally hydrogenated palm fat vegan?

Yes. Totally hydrogenated palm fat 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 totally hydrogenated palm fat have on a label?

On European labels it is “graisse de palme totalement hydrogénée” in French, “vollständig gehärtetes Palmfett” in German and “grasa de palma totalmente hidrogenada” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.

French
graisse de palme totalement hydrogénée
German
vollständig gehärtetes Palmfett, Palmfett ganz gehärtet
Spanish
grasa de palma totalmente hidrogenada
Italian
grasso di palma totalmente idrogenato
Dutch
volledig geharde palm, geheel gehard palmvet
Polish
całkowicie uwodorniony tłuszcz palmowy, całkowicie utwardzony tłuszcz palmowy
Swedish
fullhärdat palmfett
Danish
helt hærdet palmefedt, helt hærdet palmefedtstof
Norwegian
fullhydrogenert palmefett
Finnish
kokonaan kovetettu palmurasva, kokonaan kovetettua palmurasvaa
Hungarian
teljes mértékben hidrogénezett pálmazsír, teljesen hidrogénezett pálmazsír
Croatian
potpuno hidrogenizirana palmina mast

Which foods contain totally hydrogenated palm fat?

Open Food Facts lists totally hydrogenated palm fat in the ingredients of 210 products, most often beans and pulses, sweets and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, the Netherlands and Belgium.

  • Beans and pulses49
  • Sweets31
  • Biscuits and cakes27
  • Fats and spreads6
  • Salty and fatty foods5
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches2

Products with it, by country of sale: France 84 · Netherlands 64 · Belgium 23 · Germany 18.

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

What kind of ingredient is totally hydrogenated palm fat?

Totally hydrogenated palm fat is a kind of palm 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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Totally hydrogenated palm fat
  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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