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

Chicken fat is a kind of poultry fat. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 6,124 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does chicken fat contain an allergen?

Chicken fat is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.

Is chicken fat vegan?

No. Chicken fat 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 fat have on a label?

On European labels it is “graisse de poule” in French, “Hähnchenfett” in German and “Grasa de pollo” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.

French
graisse de poule, graisse de poulet
German
Hähnchenfett, Hühnerfett
Spanish
Grasa de pollo
Italian
grasso di pollo
Dutch
kippenvet
Polish
Tłuszcz z kurczaka, tłuszcz kurzy
Swedish
kycklingfett
Danish
Kyllingefedt
Finnish
kananrasva
Hungarian
tyúkzsír, csirkezsír
Croatian
kokošija mast, kokošja mast

Which foods contain chicken fat?

Open Food Facts lists chicken fat in the ingredients of 6,124 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and poultry. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Ready meals2,258
  • Dressings and sauces336
  • Poultry247
  • Processed meat228
  • Pasta, rice and flour143
  • Soups68

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 3,498 · France 1,357 · Germany 356 · United Kingdom 356.

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

What kind of ingredient is chicken fat?

Chicken fat is a kind of poultry fat.

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Sources

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 fat
  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
  4. Wikipedia: Chicken fat

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