Ingredient dictionary
Vegetable margarine on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Vegetable margarine is a kind of margarine. It is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,494 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does vegetable margarine contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link vegetable margarine to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is vegetable margarine vegan?
Yes. Vegetable margarine is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does vegetable margarine have on a label?
In English vegetable margarine can also read “vegetal margarine”. On European labels it is “margarine végétale” in French, “Pflanzliche Margarine” in German and “Margarina vegetal” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.
- French
- margarine végétale
- German
- Pflanzliche Margarine, Pflanzenmargarine
- Spanish
- Margarina vegetal
- Italian
- margarina vegetale
- Dutch
- plantaardige margarine
- Portuguese
- margarina vegetal
- Polish
- margaryna roślinna
- Swedish
- vegetabiliskt margarin
- Danish
- vegetabiliskt margarin
- Finnish
- kasvismargariini, kasvimargariini
- Czech
- rostlinný margarín
- Croatian
- biljni margarin
Which foods contain vegetable margarine?
Open Food Facts lists vegetable margarine or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,494 products, most often biscuits and cakes, pizzas, pies and quiches and pastries. Most of them are sold in France, Switzerland and Italy.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 533 · Switzerland 238 · Italy 208 · Germany 175.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where vegetable margarine turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is vegetable margarine?
Vegetable margarine is a kind of margarine.
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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 margarine
- 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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