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Ingredient dictionary

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

Gooseberry 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 74 products, most often in sweets. Per 100 g: about 40 kcal and 0.8 g protein.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20265 sourcesHow we check

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Does gooseberry contain an allergen?

Gooseberry 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 gooseberry vegan?

Yes. Gooseberry 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 gooseberry have on a label?

In English gooseberry can also read “gooseberries”. On European labels it is “groseille à maquereaux” in French, “Stachelbeere” in German and “grosella espinosa” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.

In Englishgooseberries

French: groseille à maquereaux, groseilles à maquereaux
German: Stachelbeere, Stachelbeeren
Spanish: grosella espinosa
Italian: uva spina
Dutch: kruisbes
Portuguese: groselheira
Polish: agrest, agrestu
Swedish: krusbär
Danish: stikkelsbær
Norwegian: stikkelsbær
Finnish: karviainen
Czech: srstka angrešt
Hungarian: egres
Romanian: agrișul
Croatian: ogrozd
Turkish: bektaşi üzümü

Which foods contain gooseberry?

Open Food Facts lists gooseberry or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 74 products, most often sweets, fruit and milk and yoghurt. Most of them are sold in Germany, the United States and France.

Sweets25
Fruit10
Milk and yoghurt10
Unsweetened drinks4
Biscuits and cakes4
Dried fruit2

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 22 · United States 15 · France 15 · United Kingdom 8.

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

How many calories are in gooseberry?

Gooseberry has about 40 kcal per 100 g, with 0.8 g protein, 4.9 g carbohydrate and 0.6 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Gooseberry, raw” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

40kcal per 100 g

0.8g protein

4.9g carbohydrate

0.6g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 4.7 g, saturated fat 0.1 g, fibre 4 g, salt 0 g, energy 167 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 13020. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is gooseberry?

Gooseberry is one of the berries.

Kinds of gooseberryRaw gooseberry

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