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Sour cherry on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Sour cherry is a kind of cherry. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,927 products, most often in sweets.

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Does sour cherry contain an allergen?

Sour cherry 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 sour cherry vegan?

Yes. Sour cherry 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 sour cherry have on a label?

In English sour cherry can also read “sour cherries”. On European labels it is “griotte” in French, “Sauerkirsch” in German and “Cereza agria” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.

In Englishsour cherries
French
griotte, griottes
German
Sauerkirsch, Sauerkirsche
Spanish
Cereza agria
Italian
amarene
Dutch
morellen, kriek
Portuguese
ginjas
Polish
wiśnia, wiśnie
Finnish
hapankirsikka, hapankirsikat
Croatian
višnja, višnje

Which foods contain sour cherry?

Open Food Facts lists sour cherry in the ingredients of 1,927 products, most often sweets, biscuits and cakes and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in Germany, France and the United States.

  • Sweets422
  • Biscuits and cakes222
  • Sweetened drinks169
  • Milk and yoghurt123
  • Fruit109
  • Unsweetened drinks105

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 814 · France 633 · United States 165 · United Kingdom 83.

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

What kind of ingredient is sour cherry?

Sour cherry is a kind of cherry.

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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: Sour cherry
  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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