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Lemon juice on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Lemon juice is a kind of fruit juice. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 60,137 products, most often in dressings and sauces. Per 100 g: about 29 kcal and 0.4 g protein.
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Does lemon juice contain an allergen?
Lemon juice 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 lemon juice vegan?
Yes. Lemon juice is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does lemon juice have on a label?
On European labels it is “jus de citron” in French, “Zitronensaft” in German and “zumo de limón” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- jus de citron
- German
- Zitronensaft
- Spanish
- zumo de limón, jugo de limón
- Italian
- succo di limone
- Dutch
- citroensap
- Portuguese
- suco de limão, sumo de limão
- Polish
- Sok cytrynowy, sok z cytryny
- Swedish
- citronsaft, citronjuice
- Danish
- citronsaft
- Norwegian
- sitronjuice
- Finnish
- sitruunamehu, sitruunatäysmehu
- Czech
- Citronová šťáva
- Hungarian
- Citromlé
- Croatian
- sok od limuna, soka limuna
- Turkish
- limon suyu
Which foods contain lemon juice?
Open Food Facts lists lemon juice or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 60,137 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and sweets. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 21,678 · United States 18,441 · Germany 7,289 · United Kingdom 4,329.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where lemon juice turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in lemon juice?
Lemon juice has about 29 kcal per 100 g, with 0.4 g protein, 6.1 g carbohydrate and 0.3 g fat. The figures are for food 2028 in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 2.4 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 0.4 g, salt 0.05 g, energy 124 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 2028. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is lemon juice?
Lemon juice is a kind of fruit juice.
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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: Lemon juice
- 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
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