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Pomegranate seeds on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Pomegranate seeds are a kind of seed. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 103 products, most often in fruit.
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Do pomegranate seeds contain an allergen?
Pomegranate seeds are 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.
Are pomegranate seeds vegan?
Yes. Pomegranate seeds are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do pomegranate seeds have on a label?
On European labels they are “graines de grenade” in French, “Granatapfelkerne” in German and “semi di melograno” in Italian. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- graines de grenade
- German
- Granatapfelkerne
- Italian
- semi di melograno
- Swedish
- granatäppelkärnor
- Danish
- granatæblekerner
- Norwegian
- granateplekjerner
- Finnish
- granaattiomenan siemen, granaattiomenan siemenet
- Croatian
- sjemenke nara
Which foods contain pomegranate seeds?
Open Food Facts lists pomegranate seeds in the ingredients of 103 products, most often fruit, ready meals and breakfast cereals. Most of them are sold in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 33 · Germany 17 · United Kingdom 16 · India 13.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where pomegranate seeds turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are pomegranate seeds?
Pomegranate seeds are a kind of seed.
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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: Pomegranate seeds
- 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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