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

Poultry meat is a kind of poultry. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 2,044 products, most often in processed meat.

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Does poultry meat contain an allergen?

Poultry meat 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 meat vegan?

No. Poultry meat 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 meat have on a label?

On European labels it is “viande de volaille” in French, “Geflügelfleisch” in German and “Carne de ave” in Spanish. The other 8 languages are listed below.

French
viande de volaille
German
Geflügelfleisch
Spanish
Carne de ave
Italian
Carne di pollame
Dutch
Vlees van gevogelte
Polish
Mięso drobiowe, mięsa drobiowego
Swedish
Fjäderfäkött
Danish
Fjerkrækød
Finnish
siipikarjanliha
Hungarian
baromfihús
Croatian
meso peradi

Which foods contain poultry meat?

Open Food Facts lists poultry meat or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 2,044 products, most often processed meat, poultry and ready meals. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Mexico.

  • Processed meat583
  • Poultry527
  • Ready meals405
  • Offal59
  • Meat33
  • Salty and fatty foods28

Products with it, by country of sale: France 1,625 · Germany 254 · Mexico 36 · Bulgaria 30.

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

What kind of ingredient is poultry meat?

Poultry meat is a kind of poultry.

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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 meat
  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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