Ingredient dictionary

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

Rabbit meat is a kind of meat. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 218 products, most often in meat.

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Does rabbit meat contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link rabbit meat to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is rabbit meat vegan?

No. Rabbit 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 rabbit meat have on a label?

On European labels it is “viande de lapin” in French, “Hasenfleisch” in German and “Carne de conejo” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.

French
viande de lapin
German
Hasenfleisch, Kaninchenfleisch
Spanish
Carne de conejo
Italian
carne di coniglio
Dutch
konijnenvlees
Finnish
kaninliha
Czech
králičí maso
Hungarian
nyúlhús
Croatian
zečje meso

Which foods contain rabbit meat?

Open Food Facts lists rabbit meat in the ingredients of 218 products, most often meat, processed meat and ready meals. Most of them are sold in France, Spain and Belgium.

  • Meat89
  • Processed meat68
  • Ready meals29
  • Poultry3
  • Salty and fatty foods3
  • Baby foods3

Products with it, by country of sale: France 203 · Spain 5 · Belgium 5 · Italy 5.

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

What kind of ingredient is rabbit meat?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, rabbit meat sits under meat and rabbit.

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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: Rabbit 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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