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Vegetable suet on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Vegetable suet 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 97 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.

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Does vegetable suet contain an allergen?

Vegetable suet 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 suet vegan?

Yes. Vegetable suet 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 vegetable suet have on a label?

On European labels it is “vegetarisches Suet” in German and “loj od povrća” in Croatian.

German
vegetarisches Suet
Croatian
loj od povrća

Which foods contain vegetable suet?

Open Food Facts lists vegetable suet or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 97 products, most often biscuits and cakes, pizzas, pies and quiches and sweets. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, France and Ireland.

  • Biscuits and cakes44
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches7
  • Sweets2
  • Ready meals1

Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 78 · France 15 · Ireland 5 · Australia 2.

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

What kind of ingredient is vegetable suet?

Vegetable suet is a kind of vegetable fat.

Kinds of vegetable suetNon hydrogenated vegetable suet

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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: Vegetable suet
  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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