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

Gherkin is a kind of baby cucumber. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,917 products, most often in salty and fatty foods.

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Does gherkin contain an allergen?

Gherkin 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 gherkin vegan?

Yes. Gherkin 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 gherkin have on a label?

In English gherkin can also read “pickled or unpickled gherkin”. On European labels it is “inläggningsgurka” in Swedish.

In Englishpickled or unpickled gherkin
Swedish
inläggningsgurka

Which foods contain gherkin?

Open Food Facts lists gherkin or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,917 products, most often salty and fatty foods, ready meals and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

  • Salty and fatty foods495
  • Ready meals351
  • Dressings and sauces202
  • Oily fish86
  • Sandwiches81
  • Meat57

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 1,334 · France 200 · United Kingdom 172 · United States 86.

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

What kind of ingredient is gherkin?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, gherkin sits under baby cucumber and pickled gherkin.

Kinds of gherkinCucumber or gherkin

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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: Gherkin
  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

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