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Pork cutlet on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Pork cutlet is a kind of pork meat. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan.

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Does pork cutlet contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link pork cutlet 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 cutlet vegan?

No. Pork cutlet 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 cutlet have on a label?

On European labels it is “escalope de porc” in French, “schweineschnitzel” in German and “costoletta di maiale” in Italian. The other 3 languages are listed below.

French
escalope de porc
German
schweineschnitzel
Italian
costoletta di maiale
Swedish
grisschnitzel
Finnish
porsaanleike
Croatian
svinjski kotlet

Which foods contain pork cutlet?

Open Food Facts lists pork cutlet or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 11 products, most often meat, ready meals and sandwiches. Most of them are sold in France, Finland and the United States.

  • Meat4
  • Ready meals3
  • Sandwiches1

Products with it, by country of sale: France 6 · Finland 2 · United States 1 · Germany 1.

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

What kind of ingredient is pork cutlet?

Pork cutlet is a kind of pork meat.

Kinds of pork cutletRaw pork ham escalope

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Pork cutlet
  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
  4. Wikipedia: Pork cutlet

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