Ingredient dictionary
Chicken skin on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Chicken skin is a kind of poultry skin. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 894 products, most often in processed meat.
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Does chicken skin contain an allergen?
Chicken skin 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 skin vegan?
No. Chicken skin is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does chicken skin have on a label?
On European labels it is “peau de poulet” in French, “Hähnchenhaut” in German and “piel de pollo” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- peau de poulet
- German
- Hähnchenhaut, Hühnchenhaut
- Spanish
- piel de pollo
- Italian
- pelle di pollo
- Dutch
- kippenvel
- Polish
- skóra z kurczaka, skóry z kurczaka
- Swedish
- kycklingskinn
- Finnish
- kanannahka
- Romanian
- piele de pui
- Croatian
- pileće kožice
Which foods contain chicken skin?
Open Food Facts lists chicken skin or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 894 products, most often processed meat, poultry and ready meals. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 424 · United States 204 · Germany 70 · Switzerland 48.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where chicken skin turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is chicken skin?
Chicken skin is a kind of poultry skin.
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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.
- Open Food Facts: Chicken skin
- 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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