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

Pork skin 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 314 products, most often in meat.

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Does pork skin contain an allergen?

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

No. Pork skin 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 skin have on a label?

On European labels it is “Peau de porc” in French, “Schweinehaut” in German and “pelle di maiale” in Italian. One more language is listed below.

French
Peau de porc
German
Schweinehaut
Italian
pelle di maiale
Croatian
svinjska koža

Which foods contain pork skin?

Open Food Facts lists pork skin or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 314 products, most often meat, processed meat and ready meals. Most of them are sold in the United States, Bulgaria and the United Kingdom.

  • Meat52
  • Processed meat36
  • Ready meals1
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches1
  • Salty and fatty foods1
  • Savoury snacks1

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 281 · Bulgaria 19 · United Kingdom 3 · Australia 2.

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

What kind of ingredient is pork skin?

Pork skin is a kind of pork.

Kinds of pork skinPork drinde

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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 skin
  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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