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

Chicken flavouring is a kind of flavouring. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,360 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does chicken flavouring contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link chicken flavouring 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 flavouring vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of chicken flavouring are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.

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What other names does chicken flavouring have on a label?

On European labels it is “arôme de poulet” in French, “Hühnergewürz” in German and “Sabor a pollo” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.

French
arôme de poulet, arôme de poule
German
Hühnergewürz, Hühnerfleischaroma
Spanish
Sabor a pollo, sabor pollo
Italian
Aroma di pollo
Polish
aromat kurczaka
Swedish
kycklingarom
Danish
kyllingearoma
Finnish
kana-aromi
Romanian
aromă de pui, aroma de pui
Croatian
aroma za piletinu

Which foods contain chicken flavouring?

Open Food Facts lists chicken flavouring or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,360 products, most often ready meals, pasta, rice and flour and meat. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Ready meals393
  • Pasta, rice and flour127
  • Meat61
  • Poultry54
  • Dressings and sauces30
  • Processed meat22

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 1,052 · France 146 · Germany 25 · Canada 24.

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

What kind of ingredient is chicken flavouring?

Chicken flavouring is a kind of flavouring.

Kinds of chicken flavouringNature-identical chicken flavour

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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 flavouring
  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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