Ingredient dictionary
Lamb on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Lamb is a kind of sheep. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 637 products, most often in meat.
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Does lamb contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link lamb to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
What other names does lamb have on a label?
On European labels it is “agneau” in French, “Lamm” in German and “cordero” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.
- French
- agneau
- German
- Lamm
- Spanish
- cordero
- Italian
- agnello
- Dutch
- lam
- Portuguese
- cordeiro
- Polish
- Jagnię
- Norwegian
- lam
- Finnish
- karitsa
- Hungarian
- bárány
- Croatian
- janjetina
Which foods contain lamb?
Open Food Facts lists lamb or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 637 products, most often meat, ready meals and processed meat. Most of them are sold in France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 292 · United Kingdom 130 · United States 97 · Belgium 45.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where lamb turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is lamb?
Lamb is a kind of sheep.
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Sources
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: Lamb
- 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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