Ingredient dictionary
Beef meatball on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Beef meatball is a kind of meatball. It is made to a recipe, so its allergens depend on the recipe. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 114 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does beef meatball contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link beef meatball 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 meatball vegan?
No. Beef meatball is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.
What other names does beef meatball have on a label?
On European labels it is “boulette de viande de boeuf” in French, “Rinderfleischbällchen” in German and “albóndiga de carne de res” in Spanish. The other 2 languages are listed below.
- French
- boulette de viande de boeuf
- German
- Rinderfleischbällchen
- Spanish
- albóndiga de carne de res
- Italian
- polpette di manzo
- Croatian
- goveđe okruglice
Which foods contain beef meatball?
Open Food Facts lists beef meatball in the ingredients of 114 products, most often ready meals, pasta, rice and flour and meat. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 65 · France 27 · United Kingdom 14 · Belgium 7.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where beef meatball turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is beef meatball?
Beef meatball is a kind of meatball.
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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 meatball
- 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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