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Vegetable fat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Vegetable fat is a kind of vegetable oil and fat. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 34,805 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does vegetable fat contain an allergen?
Vegetable 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 vegetable fat vegan?
Yes. Vegetable fat is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does vegetable fat have on a label?
In English vegetable fat can also read “vegetal fat” or “vegetable fats”. On European labels it is “matière grasse végétale” in French, “pflanzliche Fette” in German and “grasas vegetales” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- matière grasse végétale, matières grasses végétales
- German
- pflanzliche Fette, pflanzliches Fett
- Spanish
- grasas vegetales, grasa vegetal
- Italian
- grasso vegetale, grassi vegetali
- Dutch
- plantaardige vetten, plantaardig vet
- Portuguese
- gordura vegetal, gorduras vegetais
- Polish
- tłuszcz roślinny, tłuszcze roślinne
- Swedish
- vegetabiliska fetter, vegetabiliskt fett
- Danish
- vegetabilsk fedt
- Norwegian
- vegetabilsk fett, vegetabilskt fett
- Finnish
- kasvirasva, kasvirasvat
- Czech
- rostlinný tuk, rostlinné tuky
- Hungarian
- növényi zsír, növényi zsírok
- Romanian
- grăsime vegetală, grăsimi vegetale
- Croatian
- biljna mast, biljne masti
Which foods contain vegetable fat?
Open Food Facts lists vegetable fat or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 34,805 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and ice cream. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 10,395 · United States 6,450 · Germany 5,119 · United Kingdom 2,524.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where vegetable fat turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is vegetable fat?
Vegetable fat is a kind of vegetable oil and 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: Vegetable 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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