Blackcurrant

Ribes nigrumAlso called black currant

Blackcurrant is a fruit that tastes sour when raw. Cooks use it raw or in preserves, often pairing it with raspberry, strawberry, or apple.

Plant-based
Gluten-free
No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Fruit
Part used: Fruit
Family: Grossulariaceae
Cooked most in: Europe
Top country: Ukraine
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue
Energy: 63 kcal per 100 g

Photo: George Chernilevsky · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use blackcurrant

Typical ways to cook or use it

Preserve
Raw

Cooking with it

Cook the fruit with sugar to make a purée; strain it through muslin if you want the juice. Blackcurrant jams and jellies set readily thanks to the fruit's pectin and acid.

Goes well with

raspberry
strawberry
apple

Flavour

Taste and texture

Taste, raw profile of blackcurrant

Sweet0

Sour4

Salty0

Bitter0

Umami0

Shopping

Choosing and storing blackcurrant

Sold as: Fresh, Frozen

Nutrition

What 100 g of blackcurrant holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 8%Fat 2%Carbohydrate 89%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of blackcurrant, raw
Energy	63 kcal · 264 kJ
Protein	1.4 g
Fat	0.41 g
of which saturated	0.03 g
Carbohydrate	15 g
Sodium	2 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of blackcurrant, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium	322 mg
Calcium	55 mg
Iron	1.5 mg
Magnesium	24 mg
Zinc	0.27 mg
Vitamin C	181 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)	12 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 173963), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where blackcurrant is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses blackcurrant. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Europe1

Countries whose dishes use it most

Ukraine 1

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list blackcurrant among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to: Europe, Asia

On the table

Dishes made with blackcurrant

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Varena
Ukraine

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include blackcurrant.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: blackcurrant in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin: No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten: None
Alcohol: None
Caffeine: None
Pork: None