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

Bilberry is a kind of blueberry. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 341 products, most often in unsweetened drinks.

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Does bilberry contain an allergen?

Bilberry 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 bilberry vegan?

Yes. Bilberry 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 bilberry have on a label?

In English bilberry can also read “bilberries”, “huckleberry” or “huckleberries”. On European labels it is “mirtillo nero” in Italian, “borówka czarna” in Polish and “mustikat” in Finnish.

In Englishbilberrieshuckleberryhuckleberrieswhortleberrywhortleberries
Italian
mirtillo nero
Polish
borówka czarna, jagoda
Finnish
mustikat

Which foods contain bilberry?

Open Food Facts lists bilberry in the ingredients of 341 products, most often unsweetened drinks, sweets and milk and yoghurt. Most of them are sold in the United States, Poland and the United Kingdom.

  • Unsweetened drinks57
  • Sweets47
  • Milk and yoghurt31
  • Sweetened drinks21
  • Drinks with sweeteners9
  • Biscuits and cakes8

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 134 · Poland 79 · United Kingdom 41 · France 36.

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

What kind of ingredient is bilberry?

Bilberry is a kind of blueberry.

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Bilberry
  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. Wikipedia: Vaccinium myrtillus

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