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

Cranberry is a kind of fruit. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 10,564 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 44 kcal and 0.8 g protein.

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Does cranberry contain an allergen?

Cranberry 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 cranberry vegan?

Yes. Cranberry 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 cranberry have on a label?

In English cranberry can also read “cranberries”. On European labels it is “canneberge” in French, “Moosbeeren” in German and “arándano rojo” in Spanish. The other 11 languages are listed below.

In Englishcranberries
French
canneberge, cranberries
German
Moosbeeren, Cranberrys
Spanish
arándano rojo
Dutch
veenbessen, cranberry's
Portuguese
arandos, oxicocos
Polish
żurawina, żurawiny
Swedish
tranbär
Danish
tranebær
Norwegian
tranebær
Finnish
karpalo, karpalot
Czech
klikva, klikvy
Hungarian
vörösáfonya
Romanian
merişoare, merișoare
Croatian
brusnica, brusnice

Which foods contain cranberry?

Open Food Facts lists cranberry or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 10,564 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweetened drinks and dried fruit. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Biscuits and cakes1,141
  • Sweetened drinks715
  • Dried fruit643
  • Breakfast cereals643
  • Unsweetened drinks553
  • Pasta, rice and flour358

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 6,241 · France 2,036 · Germany 610 · United Kingdom 533.

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

How many calories are in cranberry?

Cranberry has about 44 kcal per 100 g, with 0.8 g protein, 7.6 g carbohydrate and 0.1 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Cranberry, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

44kcal per 100 g
0.8g protein
7.6g carbohydrate
0.1g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 4 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 5.1 g, salt 0.02 g, energy 186 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 13113. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is cranberry?

Cranberry is a kind of fruit.

Kinds of cranberryAmerican cranberrySugared cranberriesWild cranberry

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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: Cranberry
  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: Cranberry

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