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Chicken fillet on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Chicken fillet is a kind of chicken meat. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 3,461 products, most often in poultry.
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Does chicken fillet contain an allergen?
Chicken fillet 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 fillet vegan?
No. Chicken fillet is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does chicken fillet have on a label?
On European labels it is “filet de poulet” in French, “Hühnerfilet” in German and “Filete de pechuga de pollo” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- filet de poulet, fillets de poulet
- German
- Hühnerfilet
- Spanish
- Filete de pechuga de pollo
- Italian
- Filetto di pollo
- Dutch
- kipfilet
- Polish
- filet z kurczaka, filety z kurczaka
- Swedish
- kycklingfilé, kycklinginnerfilé
- Danish
- kyllingefilet
- Finnish
- kanafilee
- Croatian
- pileći file
Which foods contain chicken fillet?
Open Food Facts lists chicken fillet or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 3,461 products, most often poultry, ready meals and processed meat. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 2,425 · Germany 358 · Belgium 206 · United Kingdom 148.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where chicken fillet turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is chicken fillet?
Chicken fillet is a kind of chicken meat.
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- Open Food Facts: Chicken fillet
- 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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