Fruit jelly: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in fruit jelly?

Of 315 packs of fruit jelly whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 2% list milk. Another 5% carry a “may contain” line for milk, 3% for tree nuts and 3% for gluten. 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 jelly usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of fruit jelly list, with the share of packs that list each: sugar (90%), berries (54%), e330 citric acid (46%) and fruit juice (42%).

• Sugar90%
• Berries54%
• E330 citric acid46%
• Fruit juice42%
• Lemon juice33%
• Cane sugar30%
• Fruit pectin26%
• Concentrated lemon juice24%
• Water19%
• Redcurrant18%
• Quince17%
• Unrefined cane sugar13%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 516 · Germany 95 · Belgium 46 · Switzerland 42.

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 jelly.

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 jelly?

In the Open Food Facts categories, fruit jelly is a kind of fruit and vegetable preserves.

What else is fruit jelly called?

French

Gelées de fruits, Gelées

German

Fruchtgelees

Spanish

Jaleas de frutas, Jalea

Italian

Gelatine di frutta

Dutch

Vruchtengeleien, Gelei

Portuguese

Geleias de fruta, Geleia

Polish

Galaretka

Swedish

Fruktgeléer, Gelé

Danish

Gelé

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 jelly

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