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Chicken bone on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Chicken bone is a kind of bone. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 484 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does chicken bone contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link chicken bone to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is chicken bone vegan?

No. Chicken bone 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 chicken bone have on a label?

On European labels it is “os de poulet” in French, “Hühnerknochen” in German and “Hueso de pollo” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.

French
os de poulet
German
Hühnerknochen
Spanish
Hueso de pollo
Italian
osso di pollo
Dutch
kippenbeenderen
Polish
kość z kurczaka, kości z kurczaka
Finnish
kananluu
Croatian
pilleće kožice

Which foods contain chicken bone?

Open Food Facts lists chicken bone in the ingredients of 484 products, most often ready meals, poultry and processed meat. Most of them are sold in France, the United Kingdom and the United States.

  • Ready meals168
  • Poultry83
  • Processed meat69
  • Sandwiches13
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches9
  • Pasta, rice and flour9

Products with it, by country of sale: France 286 · United Kingdom 97 · United States 83 · Switzerland 17.

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

What kind of ingredient is chicken bone?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, chicken bone sits under bone and chicken.

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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: Chicken bone
  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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