Ingredient dictionary
Lean pork on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Lean pork is a kind of pork meat. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 368 products, most often in processed meat.
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Does lean pork contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link lean pork to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is lean pork vegan?
No. Lean pork is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does lean pork have on a label?
On European labels it is “maigre de porc” in French, “mageres Schweinefleisch” in German and “magra de cerdo” in Spanish. The other 2 languages are listed below.
- French
- maigre de porc
- German
- mageres Schweinefleisch
- Spanish
- magra de cerdo, magro de cerdo
- Italian
- carne di maiale magra
- Croatian
- nemasna svinjetina
Which foods contain lean pork?
Open Food Facts lists lean pork in the ingredients of 368 products, most often processed meat, ready meals and meat. Most of them are sold in France, Spain and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 231 · Spain 147 · Germany 8 · Belgium 3.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where lean pork turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is lean pork?
Lean pork is a kind of pork 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: Lean pork
- 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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