Ingredient dictionary
Sweet cherry on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sweet 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 270 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does sweet cherry contain an allergen?
Sweet 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 sweet cherry vegan?
Yes. Sweet cherry is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does sweet cherry have on a label?
On European labels it is “bigarreaux” in French, “Vogel-Kirsche” in German and “ciliegio” in Italian. The other 10 languages are listed below.
- French
- bigarreaux, merisier
- German
- Vogel-Kirsche, Vogelkirsche
- Italian
- ciliegio
- Dutch
- Zoete kers
- Polish
- czereśnia, czereśnie
- Swedish
- Sötkörsbär
- Danish
- Fugle-Kirsebær
- Norwegian
- Morell
- Finnish
- Imeläkirsikka
- Czech
- třešeň ptačí
- Hungarian
- Vadcseresznye
- Romanian
- Cireș
- Croatian
- slatka trešnja
Which foods contain sweet cherry?
Open Food Facts lists sweet cherry in the ingredients of 270 products, most often biscuits and cakes, fruit and pastries. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 182 · United States 52 · United Kingdom 8 · Germany 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sweet cherry turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is sweet cherry?
Sweet 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.
- Open Food Facts: Sweet cherry
- 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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