Ingredient dictionary
Beef meat extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Beef meat extract is a kind of beef meat. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 359 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does beef meat extract contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link beef meat extract 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 meat extract vegan?
No. Beef meat extract is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does beef meat extract have on a label?
On European labels it is “extrait de viande de bœuf” in French, “Rindfleisch-Extrakt” in German and “extracto de carne” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- extrait de viande de bœuf, extrait de viande de boeuf
- German
- Rindfleisch-Extrakt
- Spanish
- extracto de carne, extracto de ternera
- Italian
- estratto di carne di manzo
- Dutch
- rundvleesextract
- Polish
- ekstrakt wołowy
- Swedish
- nötköttsextrakt, nötkottextrakt
- Finnish
- Naudanlihatiiviste
- Hungarian
- marhahúskivonat
- Croatian
- ekstrakt goveđeg mesa
Which foods contain beef meat extract?
Open Food Facts lists beef meat extract in the ingredients of 359 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and meat. Most of them are sold in France, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 134 · Netherlands 94 · Switzerland 80 · Belgium 48.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where beef meat extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is beef meat extract?
Beef meat extract is a kind of beef meat.
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- Open Food Facts: Beef meat extract
- 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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