Ingredient dictionary
Mechanically separated poultry meat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Mechanically separated poultry meat is a kind of mechanically separated meat. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 60 products, most often in processed meat.
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Does mechanically separated poultry meat contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link mechanically separated poultry 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 mechanically separated poultry meat vegan?
No. Mechanically separated poultry meat is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does mechanically separated poultry meat have on a label?
On European labels it is “viande de volaille séparée mécaniquement” in French, “carne di pollame separata meccanicamente” in Italian and “strojno otkošteno meso peradi” in Croatian.
- French
- viande de volaille séparée mécaniquement, viande séparée mécaniquement de volaille
- Italian
- carne di pollame separata meccanicamente
- Croatian
- strojno otkošteno meso peradi
Which foods contain mechanically separated poultry meat?
Open Food Facts lists mechanically separated poultry meat in the ingredients of 60 products, most often processed meat, ready meals and poultry. Most of them are sold in France, Morocco and the Philippines.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 46 · Morocco 6 · Philippines 3 · United Kingdom 2.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where mechanically separated poultry meat turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is mechanically separated poultry meat?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, mechanically separated poultry meat sits under mechanically separated meat and poultry meat.
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- Open Food Facts: Mechanically separated poultry 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
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