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Apricot on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Apricot is a kind of prunus species fruit. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 8,610 products, most often in sweets. Per 100 g: about 46 kcal and 0.8 g protein.

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Does apricot contain an allergen?

Apricot 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 apricot vegan?

Yes. Apricot 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 apricot have on a label?

On European labels it is “abricot” in French, “Aprikose” in German and “albaricoque” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.

French
abricot, Abricots de Haute Ardèche
German
Aprikose, Aprikosen
Spanish
albaricoque, albaricoques
Italian
albicocca, albicocche
Dutch
abrikoos, abrikozen
Portuguese
damasco
Polish
Morela, moreli
Swedish
aprikos, aprikoser
Danish
abrikos, abrikoser
Norwegian
aprikos
Finnish
aprikoosi
Czech
meruňka
Hungarian
sárgabarack
Romanian
caisă
Croatian
marelica, marelice
Turkish
kayısı

Which foods contain apricot?

Open Food Facts lists apricot or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 8,610 products, most often sweets, biscuits and cakes and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.

  • Sweets1,262
  • Biscuits and cakes1,034
  • Sweetened drinks642
  • Fruit621
  • Milk and yoghurt619
  • Dried fruit516

Products with it, by country of sale: France 4,390 · United States 1,379 · Germany 944 · United Kingdom 491.

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

How many calories are in apricot?

Apricot has about 46 kcal per 100 g, with 0.8 g protein, 9 g carbohydrate and 0.3 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Apricot, pitted, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

46kcal per 100 g
0.8g protein
9g carbohydrate
0.3g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 6.7 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 1.7 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 194 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 13000. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is apricot?

Apricot is a kind of prunus species fruit.

Kinds of apricotApricot pureeDried apricotsApricot juiceBergeron Apricot

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Sources

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: Apricot
  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
  4. ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
  5. Wikipedia: Apricot

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