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Free range chicken on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Free range chicken is a kind of chicken. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 84 products, most often in poultry.
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Does free range chicken contain an allergen?
Free range 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 free range chicken vegan?
No. Free range chicken is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does free range chicken have on a label?
On European labels it is “poulet élevé en plein air” in French, “Freilandhühner” in German and “pollo de corral” in Spanish. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- poulet élevé en plein air
- German
- Freilandhühner, Freilandhühnern
- Spanish
- pollo de corral
- Italian
- pollo ruspante
- Danish
- fritgående høns
- Croatian
- piletina slobodnog uzgoja
Which foods contain free range chicken?
Open Food Facts lists free range chicken or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 84 products, most often poultry, ready meals and baby foods. Most of them are sold in France, Spain and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 49 · Spain 17 · United States 16 · Australia 5.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where free range chicken turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is free range chicken?
Free range chicken is a kind of chicken.
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- Open Food Facts: Free range chicken
- 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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