Ingredient dictionary
Pork tongue on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Pork tongue is a kind of pork meat. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 123 products, most often in processed meat.
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Does pork tongue contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link pork tongue 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 tongue vegan?
No. Pork tongue is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does pork tongue have on a label?
On European labels it is “langue de porc” in French, “Schweinezunge” in German and “lengua de cerdo” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.
- French
- langue de porc
- German
- Schweinezunge
- Spanish
- lengua de cerdo
- Italian
- lingua di maiale
- Dutch
- varkenstong
- Portuguese
- língua de porco
- Finnish
- sian kieli
- Hungarian
- sertésnyelv, disznónyelv
- Croatian
- svinjski jezik
Which foods contain pork tongue?
Open Food Facts lists pork tongue in the ingredients of 123 products, most often processed meat, meat and offal. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 84 · United States 12 · Belgium 10 · Switzerland 10.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where pork tongue turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is pork tongue?
Pork tongue is a kind of pork meat.
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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.
- Open Food Facts: Pork tongue
- 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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