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Pickled cucumber on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Pickled cucumber is a kind of cucumber. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 3,765 products, most often in salty and fatty foods.

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Does pickled cucumber contain an allergen?

Pickled cucumber 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 pickled cucumber vegan?

Yes. Pickled cucumber 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 pickled cucumber have on a label?

On European labels it is “syltet agurk” in Danish.

Danish
syltet agurk, syltede agurker

Which foods contain pickled cucumber?

Open Food Facts lists pickled cucumber or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 3,765 products, most often salty and fatty foods, ready meals and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Spain.

  • Salty and fatty foods1,074
  • Ready meals628
  • Dressings and sauces377
  • Sandwiches300
  • Oily fish254
  • Meat110

Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,555 · Germany 1,441 · Spain 177 · United Kingdom 172.

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

What kind of ingredient is pickled cucumber?

Pickled cucumber is a kind of cucumber.

Kinds of pickled cucumberPickled 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: Pickled cucumber
  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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