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Beef collagen on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Beef collagen 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 134 products, most often in processed meat.

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Does beef collagen contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link beef collagen 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 collagen vegan?

No. Beef collagen is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it comes from an animal.
VegetarianNot for youIt comes from meat or another slaughter product.

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What other names does beef collagen have on a label?

On European labels it is “collagène de bœuf” in French, “Rinderkollagen” in German and “collagene di manzo” in Italian. The other 2 languages are listed below.

French
collagène de bœuf, collagène de boeuf
German
Rinderkollagen
Italian
collagene di manzo
Polish
kolagen wołowy
Croatian
goveđi kolagen

Which foods contain beef collagen?

Open Food Facts lists beef collagen in the ingredients of 134 products, most often processed meat, biscuits and cakes and ready meals. Most of them are sold in Germany, France and Belgium.

  • Processed meat79
  • Biscuits and cakes6
  • Ready meals4
  • Bread2
  • Poultry2
  • Milk and yoghurt1

Products with it, by country of sale: Germany 62 · France 28 · Belgium 23 · United Kingdom 17.

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

What kind of ingredient is beef collagen?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, beef collagen 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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Beef collagen
  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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