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

Chicken is a kind of poultry. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 30,727 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does chicken contain an allergen?

Chicken 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 vegan?

No. Chicken 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 have on a label?

In English chicken can also read “chickens”. On European labels it is “poulet” in French, “Hühnchen” in German and “pollo” in Spanish. The other 13 languages are listed below.

In Englishchickens
French
poulet, poulets
German
Hühnchen, Huhn
Spanish
pollo
Italian
Polli, pollo
Dutch
kippen, kip
Portuguese
galinha
Polish
Kurczaki, kurczak
Swedish
kyckling, tamhöna
Danish
høns
Norwegian
høns
Finnish
kana, kanat
Czech
kur
Hungarian
Csirkék, csirke
Romanian
pui, găină
Croatian
kokoš, kokošji
Turkish
Tavuk

Which foods contain chicken?

Open Food Facts lists chicken or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 30,727 products, most often ready meals, poultry and processed meat. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Ready meals7,315
  • Poultry5,520
  • Processed meat2,852
  • Sandwiches1,015
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches851
  • Meat674

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 10,799 · France 9,869 · Germany 2,561 · United Kingdom 2,552.

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

What kind of ingredient is chicken?

Chicken is a kind of poultry.

Kinds of chickenChicken meatChicken proteinChicken liverChicken boneChicken wingFree range chickenWhole chickenChicken heartChicken neckChicken bloodRaw chicken meat and skinRaw ground chickenChicken stomachChicken wing meat and skin

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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
  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
  4. Wikipedia: Chicken as food

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