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Duck liver on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Duck liver is a kind of duck. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 2,400 products, most often in salty and fatty foods.
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Does duck liver contain an allergen?
Duck liver 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 duck liver vegan?
No. Duck liver is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does duck liver have on a label?
On European labels it is “foie de canard” in French, “Entenleber” in German and “hígado de pato” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.
- French
- foie de canard
- German
- Entenleber
- Spanish
- hígado de pato
- Italian
- fegato d'anatra
- Dutch
- eendenlever
- Polish
- wątroba kaczki, wątróbka z kaczki
- Swedish
- Anka lever
- Danish
- Andelever
- Finnish
- ankanmaksa, ankan maksa
- Czech
- kachní játra
- Croatian
- pačja jetra
Which foods contain duck liver?
Open Food Facts lists duck liver or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 2,400 products, most often salty and fatty foods, processed meat and poultry. Most of them are sold in France, Spain and Switzerland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 2,323 · Spain 36 · Switzerland 22 · Belgium 14.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where duck liver turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is duck liver?
Duck liver is a kind of duck.
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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: Duck liver
- 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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