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Poultry fat on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Poultry fat is a kind of animal fat. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 8,332 products, most often in ready meals.

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Does poultry fat contain an allergen?

Poultry fat is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.

Is poultry fat vegan?

No. Poultry fat 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 poultry fat have on a label?

On European labels it is “graisse de volaille” in French, “Geflügelfett” in German and “Grasa de aves” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.

French
graisse de volaille
German
Geflügelfett
Spanish
Grasa de aves
Italian
Grasso di pollame
Dutch
Vet van gevogelte
Polish
Tłuszcz drobiowy
Finnish
siipikarjarasva
Hungarian
baromfizsír
Croatian
mast peradi

Which foods contain poultry fat?

Open Food Facts lists poultry fat or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 8,332 products, most often ready meals, processed meat and poultry. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Ready meals2,959
  • Processed meat588
  • Poultry531
  • Dressings and sauces355
  • Salty and fatty foods179
  • Pasta, rice and flour149

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 3,620 · France 3,286 · Germany 427 · United Kingdom 379.

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

What kind of ingredient is poultry fat?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, poultry fat sits under animal fat and fat.

Kinds of poultry fatChicken fatDuck fatGoose fatTurkey fat

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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: Poultry fat
  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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