Ingredient dictionary
White pepper on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
White pepper is a kind of pepper. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 13,379 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 310 kcal and 11 g protein.
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Does white pepper contain an allergen?
White pepper 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 white pepper vegan?
Yes. White pepper is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does white pepper have on a label?
On European labels it is “poivre blanc” in French, “weißer Pfeffer” in German and “pimienta blanca” in Spanish. The other 11 languages are listed below.
- French
- poivre blanc
- German
- weißer Pfeffer, weisser Pfeffer
- Spanish
- pimienta blanca
- Italian
- pepe bianco
- Dutch
- witte peper
- Portuguese
- pimenta-branca, pimenta branca
- Polish
- pieprz biały, biały pieprz
- Swedish
- vitpeppar, vit peppar
- Danish
- hvid peber
- Norwegian
- hvit pepper
- Finnish
- valkopippuri
- Czech
- pepř bílý, bílý pepř
- Hungarian
- fehérbors, fehér bors
- Croatian
- bijeli papor
Which foods contain white pepper?
Open Food Facts lists white pepper or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 13,379 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and processed meat. Most of them are sold in France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 4,507 · United Kingdom 2,604 · United States 2,398 · Germany 1,126.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where white pepper turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in white pepper?
White pepper has about 310 kcal per 100 g, with 11 g protein, 48 g carbohydrate and 2.1 g fat. The figures are for the entry “White pepper, powder” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 3.1 g, saturated fat 0.6 g, fibre 26 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 1,300 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 11019. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is white pepper?
White pepper is a kind of pepper.
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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: White pepper
- 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
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