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Cooked beef tongue on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Cooked beef tongue is a kind of beef tongue. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Per 100 g: about 235 kcal and 24 g protein.

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Does cooked beef tongue contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link cooked beef tongue to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is cooked beef tongue vegan?

No. Cooked beef tongue 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 cooked beef tongue have on a label?

On European labels it is “langue de boeuf cuite” in French, “lingua di manzo cotta” in Italian and “kuhani goveđi jezik” in Croatian.

French
langue de boeuf cuite
Italian
lingua di manzo cotta
Croatian
kuhani goveđi jezik

Which foods contain cooked beef tongue?

Open Food Facts lists cooked beef tongue or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 13 products, most often meat and offal. Most of them are sold in France.

  • Meat11
  • Offal2

Products with it, by country of sale: France 13.

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

How many calories are in cooked beef tongue?

Cooked beef tongue has about 235 kcal per 100 g, with 24 g protein, 0 g carbohydrate and 16 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Tongue, beef, cooked” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

235kcal per 100 g
24g protein
0g carbohydrate
16g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 0 g, saturated fat 6.1 g, fibre 0 g, salt 0.21 g, energy 981 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 40203. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is cooked beef tongue?

Cooked beef tongue is a kind of beef tongue.

Kinds of cooked beef tongueCooked calf tongue

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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: Cooked beef tongue
  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. ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0

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