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Pork by-product on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Pork by-product is a kind of pork. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 2,194 products, most often in processed meat.

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Does pork by-product contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link pork by-product to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is pork by-product vegan?

No. Pork by-product is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it comes from an animal.
VegetarianNot for youIt comes from meat or another slaughter product.

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What other names does pork by-product have on a label?

On European labels it is “sous-produit du porc” in French, “Nebenprodukt aus Schweinefleisch” in German and “Subproducto de cerdo” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.

French
sous-produit du porc
German
Nebenprodukt aus Schweinefleisch
Spanish
Subproducto de cerdo
Italian
Prodotto con maiale
Dutch
Varkensvleesbijproduct
Finnish
sianlihan sivutuote, sianlihasta saatava sivutuote
Croatian
svinjski nusproizvod

Which foods contain pork by-product?

Open Food Facts lists pork by-product or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 2,194 products, most often processed meat, ready meals and offal. Most of them are sold in France, Belgium and Portugal.

  • Processed meat1,039
  • Ready meals450
  • Offal139
  • Meat72
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches62
  • Pasta, rice and flour34

Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,960 · Belgium 169 · Portugal 81 · Switzerland 26.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where pork by-product turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is pork by-product?

Pork by-product is a kind of pork.

Kinds of pork by-productPork bone

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Pork by-product
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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