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

Chicken liver is a kind of chicken. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 570 products, most often in processed meat.

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Does chicken liver contain an allergen?

Chicken liver 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 liver vegan?

No. Chicken liver 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 liver have on a label?

On European labels it is “foie de poulet” in French, “Pouletleber” in German and “Higado de pollo” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.

French
foie de poulet
German
Pouletleber, Hühnerleber
Spanish
Higado de pollo
Italian
fegato di pollo
Dutch
kippenlever
Polish
wątroba z kurczaka, wątróbka z kurczaka
Finnish
kananmaksa
Romanian
ficat de pui
Croatian
pileća jetra

Which foods contain chicken liver?

Open Food Facts lists chicken liver in the ingredients of 570 products, most often processed meat, salty and fatty foods and poultry. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Switzerland.

  • Processed meat232
  • Salty and fatty foods98
  • Poultry66
  • Ready meals19
  • Offal18
  • Pasta, rice and flour10

Products with it, by country of sale: France 417 · United States 35 · Switzerland 23 · United Kingdom 22.

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

What kind of ingredient is chicken liver?

Chicken liver is a kind of chicken.

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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 liver
  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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