Ingredient dictionary
Blackcurrant on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Blackcurrant is one of the berries. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 8,185 products, most often in sweets. Per 100 g: about 71 kcal and 1.3 g protein.
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Does blackcurrant contain an allergen?
Blackcurrant 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 blackcurrant vegan?
Yes. Blackcurrant is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does blackcurrant have on a label?
In English blackcurrant can also read “black currant” or “blackcurrants”. On European labels it is “cassis” in French, “schwarze Johannisbeere” in German and “grosella negra” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.
- French
- cassis, baies de cassis
- German
- schwarze Johannisbeere, schwarze Johannisbeeren
- Spanish
- grosella negra, grosellas negras
- Italian
- ribes nero, ribes neri
- Dutch
- zwarte bes, cassisbessen
- Portuguese
- groselha negra, groselhas negras
- Polish
- Czarna porzeczka, czarnej porzeczki
- Swedish
- svarta vinbär, svartvinbär
- Danish
- solbær
- Norwegian
- solbær
- Finnish
- mustaherukka, mustaherukkaa
- Czech
- černého rybízu
- Hungarian
- fekete ribizli, feketeribiszke
- Romanian
- coacăzelor negre
- Croatian
- crni ribiz, crnog ribiza
- Turkish
- kuş üzümü
Which foods contain blackcurrant?
Open Food Facts lists blackcurrant or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 8,185 products, most often sweets, sweetened drinks and unsweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 3,601 · Germany 1,286 · United Kingdom 926 · United States 913.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where blackcurrant turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in blackcurrant?
Blackcurrant has about 71 kcal per 100 g, with 1.3 g protein, 9.7 g carbohydrate and 0.9 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Black currant, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 9.7 g, saturated fat 0.1 g, fibre 5.8 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 300 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 13007. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is blackcurrant?
Blackcurrant is one of the berries.
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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: Blackcurrant
- 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
- Wikipedia: Blackcurrant
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