Fruit chutney: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in fruit chutney?

Of 126 packs of fruit chutney whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 9% list sulphites, 6% list mustard, 3% list milk and 2% list gluten. Another 10% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 6% for peanuts and 5% for sesame. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

What is fruit chutney usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of fruit chutney list, with the share of packs that list each: sugar (94%), salt (85%), vinegar (50%) and mango (44%).

• Sugar94%
• Salt85%
• Vinegar50%
• Mango44%
• Onion-family vegetable37%
• Fig33%
• E260 acetic acid30%
• Pepper30%
• Ginger27%
• Chili pepper26%
• Onion25%
• Cane sugar23%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 342 · United Kingdom 95 · Germany 46 · Belgium 22.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for fruit chutney.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food is fruit chutney?

In the Open Food Facts categories, fruit chutney is a kind of chutney.

What else is fruit chutney called?

French

Chutneys de fruit

German

Fruchtchutneys

Spanish

Chutneys de fruta, Chutneys de frutas

Italian

Chutney di frutta

Dutch

Fruitchutney

Swedish

Fruktchutneys

Danish

Frugtchutneyer

Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

1. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
2. Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
3. Open Food Facts: Fruit chutney

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