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Totally hydrogenated palm oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Totally hydrogenated palm oil is a kind of hydrogenated palm oil. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 188 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does totally hydrogenated palm oil contain an allergen?
Totally hydrogenated 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 totally hydrogenated palm oil vegan?
It depends on the make. Some kinds of totally hydrogenated palm oil 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.
What other names does totally hydrogenated palm oil have on a label?
On European labels it is “huile de palme totalement hydrogénée” in French, “vollständig gehärtetes Palmöl” in German and “aceite de palma totalmente hidrogenado” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.
- French
- huile de palme totalement hydrogénée, palme totalement hydrogénée
- German
- vollständig gehärtetes Palmöl
- Spanish
- aceite de palma totalmente hidrogenado
- Italian
- olio di palma totalmente idrogenato
- Dutch
- geheel geharde palm, geheel geharde palmolie
- Polish
- całkowicie utwardzony olej palmowy, olej roślinny palmowy całkowicie utwardzony
- Swedish
- helt hydrerad palmolja
- Norwegian
- fullhydrogenert palmeolje
- Finnish
- kokonaan kovetettu palmuöljy, kokonaan hydrogenoitu palmuöljy
- Hungarian
- teljes mértékben hidrogénezett pálmaolaj, teljesen hidrogénezett pálmaolaj
- Romanian
- unt de palmier complet hidrogenat
- Croatian
- potpuno hidrogenirano palmino ulje
Which foods contain totally hydrogenated palm oil?
Open Food Facts lists totally hydrogenated palm oil in the ingredients of 188 products, most often biscuits and cakes, beans and pulses and margarine. Most of them are sold in France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 104 · Netherlands 44 · Belgium 18 · Bulgaria 10.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where totally hydrogenated palm oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is totally hydrogenated palm oil?
Totally hydrogenated palm oil is a kind of hydrogenated palm oil.
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- Open Food Facts: Totally hydrogenated 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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