Ingredient dictionary
Horse meat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Horse meat is a kind of horse. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 61 products, most often in processed meat.
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Does horse meat contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link horse meat to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is horse meat vegan?
No. Horse meat is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does horse meat have on a label?
On European labels it is “viande de cheval” in French, “pferdefleisch” in German and “carne de caballo” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.
- French
- viande de cheval
- German
- pferdefleisch
- Spanish
- carne de caballo
- Italian
- carne di cavallo
- Dutch
- paardenvlees
- Portuguese
- carne equina
- Polish
- konina
- Swedish
- hästkött
- Finnish
- hevosenliha
- Czech
- koňské maso
- Croatian
- konjsko meso
- Turkish
- at eti
Which foods contain horse meat?
Open Food Facts lists horse meat in the ingredients of 61 products, most often processed meat, meat and ready meals. Most of them are sold in France, Belgium and Finland.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 30 · Belgium 8 · Finland 7 · Switzerland 7.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where horse meat turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is horse meat?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, horse meat sits under horse and meat.
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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: Horse meat
- 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
- Wikipedia: Horse meat
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