Ingredient dictionary
Sheeps casing on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sheeps casing is a kind of casing. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,392 products, most often in processed meat.
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Does sheeps casing contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link sheeps casing to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
What other names does sheeps casing have on a label?
In English sheeps casing can also read “Sheep gut” or “mutton casing”. On European labels it is “boyau de mouton” in French, “Schafsdarm” in German and “Tripa de oveja” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- boyau de mouton
- German
- Schafsdarm, Schafsaitling
- Spanish
- Tripa de oveja
- Italian
- budello di pecore, budello di sale
- Polish
- jelito baranie
- Finnish
- Lampaansuoli
- Hungarian
- juhbél, birkabél
- Croatian
- ovčje crijevo
Which foods contain sheeps casing?
Open Food Facts lists sheeps casing or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,392 products, most often processed meat, ready meals and poultry. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and Belgium.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 868 · Germany 425 · Belgium 55 · Switzerland 54.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sheeps casing turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is sheeps casing?
Sheeps casing is a kind of casing.
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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: Sheeps casing
- 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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