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

Cantaloupe is a kind of melon. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 213 products, most often in fruit and vegetables. Per 100 g: about 63 kcal and 1.1 g protein.

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Does cantaloupe contain an allergen?

Cantaloupe 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 cantaloupe vegan?

Yes. Cantaloupe 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 cantaloupe have on a label?

In English cantaloupe can also read “cantaloupe melon”. On European labels it is “melon cantaloup” in French, “Cantaloupe-Melone” in German and “melón cantaloupe” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.

In Englishcantaloupe melon
French
melon cantaloup
German
Cantaloupe-Melone, Kantalupe
Spanish
melón cantaloupe
Italian
melone di cantalupo
Dutch
cantaloupe meloen
Portuguese
melão-cantalupo, meloa
Polish
kantalupa
Swedish
nätmelon
Danish
kantalupmelon
Finnish
cantaloupe-meloni
Romanian
cantalup

Which foods contain cantaloupe?

Open Food Facts lists cantaloupe or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 213 products, most often fruit and vegetables, fruit and sweets. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Belgium.

  • Fruit and vegetables55
  • Fruit44
  • Sweets20
  • Sweetened drinks4
  • Ice cream4
  • Unsweetened drinks2

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 141 · France 48 · Belgium 23 · Netherlands 6.

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

How many calories are in cantaloupe?

Cantaloupe has about 63 kcal per 100 g, with 1.1 g protein, 15 g carbohydrate and 0.3 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Melon, cantaloupe -ex Cavaillon or Charentais melon-, pulp, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

63kcal per 100 g
1.1g protein
15g carbohydrate
0.3g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 11 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 1.3 g, salt 0.06 g, energy 265 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 13026. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is cantaloupe?

Cantaloupe is a kind of melon.

Kinds of cantaloupeCharentais melon

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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: Cantaloupe
  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

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