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

Pork heart 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 162 products, most often in processed meat.

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Does pork heart contain an allergen?

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

No. Pork heart 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 heart have on a label?

On European labels it is “coeur de porc” in French, “Schweineherz” in German and “corazón de cerdo” in Spanish. The other 3 languages are listed below.

French
coeur de porc
German
Schweineherz
Spanish
corazón de cerdo
Italian
cuore di maiale
Polish
serca wieprzowe, serce wieprzowe
Croatian
svinjsko srce

Which foods contain pork heart?

Open Food Facts lists pork heart in the ingredients of 162 products, most often processed meat, meat and offal. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Bulgaria.

  • Processed meat115
  • Meat7
  • Offal2
  • Ready meals2

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 139 · France 12 · Bulgaria 5 · United Kingdom 2.

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

What kind of ingredient is pork heart?

Pork heart is a kind of pork.

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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 heart
  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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