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

Prune is a kind of plum. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,541 products, most often in dried fruit. Per 100 g: about 229 kcal and 1.6 g protein.

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Does prune contain an allergen?

Prune 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 prune vegan?

Yes. Prune 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 prune have on a label?

In English prune can also read “dried plum”. On European labels it is “pruneau” in French, “Trockenpflaume” in German and “ciruela pasa” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.

In Englishdried plum
French
pruneau, pruneaux
German
Trockenpflaume, Trockenpflaumen
Spanish
ciruela pasa, ciruelas pasas
Italian
prugne secche, prugna secca
Dutch
pruimedant, gedroogde pruim
Portuguese
ameixa seca
Polish
śliwki suszone
Swedish
sviskon
Danish
sveske, svesker
Norwegian
sviske
Finnish
kuivattu luumu

Which foods contain prune?

Open Food Facts lists prune or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,541 products, most often dried fruit, biscuits and cakes and unsweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.

  • Dried fruit379
  • Biscuits and cakes142
  • Unsweetened drinks102
  • Fruit88
  • Ready meals65
  • Milk and yoghurt44

Products with it, by country of sale: France 747 · United States 559 · United Kingdom 58 · Switzerland 34.

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

How many calories are in prune?

Prune has about 229 kcal per 100 g, with 1.6 g protein, 55 g carbohydrate and 0.4 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Prune” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

229kcal per 100 g
1.6g protein
55g carbohydrate
0.4g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 38 g, saturated fat 0.2 g, fibre 5.1 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 969 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 13042. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is prune?

Prune is a kind of plum.

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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: Prune
  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
  4. ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
  5. Wikipedia: Prune

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