Ingredient dictionary
Beef casing on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Beef casing is a kind of beef. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 270 products, most often in processed meat.
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Does beef casing contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link beef casing to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is beef casing vegan?
No. Beef casing is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does beef casing have on a label?
On European labels it is “boyau de bœuf” in French, “Rinderdarm” in German and “budello di manzo” in Italian. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- boyau de bœuf, boyau de boeuf
- German
- Rinderdarm
- Italian
- budello di manzo
- Dutch
- rundercollageen
- Polish
- jelito wołowe
- Hungarian
- marhabél
- Croatian
- goveđe crijevo
Which foods contain beef casing?
Open Food Facts lists beef casing in the ingredients of 270 products, most often processed meat, ready meals and poultry. Most of them are sold in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: Netherlands 154 · Switzerland 40 · Germany 32 · France 31.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where beef casing turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is beef casing?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, beef casing sits under beef and collagen.
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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: Beef casing
- 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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