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Virgin olive oil on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Virgin olive oil is a kind of olive oil. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 26,571 products, most often in dressings and sauces.
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Does virgin olive oil contain an allergen?
Virgin olive 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 virgin olive oil vegan?
Yes. Virgin olive oil is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does virgin olive oil have on a label?
On European labels it is “huile d'olive vierge” in French, “natives Olivenöl” in German and “aceite de oliva virgen” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.
- French
- huile d'olive vierge
- German
- natives Olivenöl
- Spanish
- aceite de oliva virgen
- Italian
- olio d'oliva vergine
- Dutch
- olijfolie van de eerste persing
- Portuguese
- azeite de oliva virgem, azeite virgem
- Polish
- Oliwa z oliwek z pierwszego tłoczenia, Oliwa z oliwek virgin
- Swedish
- jungfruolivolja, virgin olivolja
- Danish
- jomfruolivenolie
- Finnish
- neitsytoliiviöljy
- Czech
- Panenský olivový olej
- Hungarian
- szűz olívaolaj
- Croatian
- djevičansko maslinovo ulje
Which foods contain virgin olive oil?
Open Food Facts lists virgin olive oil or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 26,571 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and fats and spreads. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Spain.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 11,399 · United States 7,772 · Spain 1,970 · Italy 1,950.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where virgin olive oil turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is virgin olive oil?
Virgin olive oil is a kind of olive oil.
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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: Virgin olive 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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