Ingredient dictionary
Grass-fed beef on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Grass-fed beef is a kind of beef. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 362 products, most often in meat.
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Does grass-fed beef contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link grass-fed beef to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is grass-fed beef vegan?
No. Grass-fed beef is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does grass-fed beef have on a label?
On European labels it is “bœuf nourri à l'herbe” in French, “Weidefleisch” in German and “carne de res alimentada con pasto” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- bœuf nourri à l'herbe
- German
- Weidefleisch
- Spanish
- carne de res alimentada con pasto
- Italian
- manzo alimentato con erba
- Dutch
- grasgevoerd rundvlees
- Portuguese
- carne de vaca alimentada com capim
- Croatian
- govedina hranjena travom
Which foods contain grass-fed beef?
Open Food Facts lists grass-fed beef in the ingredients of 362 products, most often meat, processed meat and sandwiches. Most of them are sold in the United States, Australia and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 347 · Australia 7 · France 4 · Chile 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where grass-fed beef turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is grass-fed beef?
Grass-fed beef is a kind of beef.
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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: Grass-fed beef
- 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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