Ingredient dictionary
Deer on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Deer is a kind of game animal. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. Open Food Facts finds it in 276 products, most often in meat.
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Does deer contain an allergen?
Deer 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.
What other names does deer have on a label?
On European labels it is “biche” in French, “Hirsch” in German and “Cervo” in Italian. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- biche
- German
- Hirsch, Reh
- Italian
- Cervo
- Polish
- jeleń, jelenia
- Danish
- hjort
- Finnish
- hirvieläin
- Hungarian
- szarvas
- Croatian
- jelen
Which foods contain deer?
Open Food Facts lists deer or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 276 products, most often meat, processed meat and ready meals. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 128 · Germany 63 · United States 28 · Switzerland 23.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where deer turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is deer?
Deer is a kind of game animal.
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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: Deer
- 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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