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Vinegar cucumbers on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Vinegar cucumbers are a kind of cucumber. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 87 products, most often in sandwiches.
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Do vinegar cucumbers contain an allergen?
Vinegar cucumbers 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 vinegar cucumbers vegan?
Yes. Vinegar cucumbers are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do vinegar cucumbers have on a label?
On European labels they are “concombres au vinaigre” in French, “Essiggurken” in German and “cetrioli all'aceto” in Italian. The other 2 languages are listed below.
- French
- concombres au vinaigre
- German
- Essiggurken
- Italian
- cetrioli all'aceto
- Finnish
- etikkakurkut
- Croatian
- ocat krastavci
Which foods contain vinegar cucumbers?
Open Food Facts lists vinegar cucumbers in the ingredients of 87 products, most often sandwiches, ready meals and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
Products with it, by country of sale: Switzerland 46 · Germany 21 · Austria 15 · France 8.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where vinegar cucumbers turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are vinegar cucumbers?
Vinegar cucumbers are a kind of cucumber.
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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: Vinegar cucumbers
- 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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