Ingredient dictionary
Chicken meat extract on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Chicken meat extract 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 51 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does chicken meat extract contain an allergen?
Chicken meat extract 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 meat extract vegan?
No. Chicken meat extract is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does chicken meat extract have on a label?
On European labels it is “extrait de viande de poulet” in French, “extracto de carne de pollo” in Spanish and “estratto di carne di pollo” in Italian. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- extrait de viande de poulet
- Spanish
- extracto de carne de pollo
- Italian
- estratto di carne di pollo
- Dutch
- kippenvleesextract
- Polish
- ekstrakt mięsa kurzego
- Romanian
- extract de carne de pui
- Croatian
- ekstrakt pilećeg mesa
Which foods contain chicken meat extract?
Open Food Facts lists chicken meat extract in the ingredients of 51 products, most often ready meals, soups and pizzas, pies and quiches. Most of them are sold in France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 19 · Netherlands 18 · Belgium 12 · Spain 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where chicken meat extract turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is chicken meat extract?
Chicken meat extract is a kind of chicken meat.
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- Open Food Facts: Chicken meat extract
- 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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