Ingredient dictionary
Pickled gherkin on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Pickled 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 3,734 products, most often in salty and fatty foods.
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Does pickled gherkin contain an allergen?
Pickled 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 pickled gherkin vegan?
Yes. Pickled gherkin is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does pickled gherkin have on a label?
In English pickled gherkin can also read “pickle” or “pickles”. On European labels it is “cornichon” in French, “Cornichons” in German and “pepinillos” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- cornichon, cornichons
- German
- Cornichons
- Spanish
- pepinillos
- Italian
- cetriolini
- Dutch
- augurken, augurk
- Polish
- korniszon, korniszony
- Danish
- cornichon
- Finnish
- cocktailkurkku, pikkukurkku
- Romanian
- castraveți murați
- Croatian
- kiseli krastavci
Which foods contain pickled gherkin?
Open Food Facts lists pickled gherkin or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 3,734 products, most often salty and fatty foods, ready meals and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Spain.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,552 · Germany 1,437 · Spain 177 · United Kingdom 170.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where pickled gherkin turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is pickled gherkin?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, pickled gherkin sits under baby cucumber and pickled cucumber.
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- Open Food Facts: Pickled gherkin
- 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
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