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Smoked bacon on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Smoked bacon is a kind of bacon. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 491 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does smoked bacon contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link smoked bacon to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is smoked bacon vegan?
No. Smoked bacon is not vegan: it comes from an animal. It is not vegetarian either.
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What other names does smoked bacon have on a label?
On European labels it is “lard fumé” in French, “geräucherter Speck” in German and “Tocino ahumado” in Spanish. The other 6 languages are listed below.
- French
- lard fumé
- German
- geräucherter Speck
- Spanish
- Tocino ahumado
- Italian
- pancetta affumicata
- Dutch
- gerookte spek, gerookt spek
- Swedish
- rökt bacon
- Finnish
- savupekoni, savustettu pekoni
- Hungarian
- füstölt bacon, füstölt bacon szalonna
- Croatian
- dimljena slanina
Which foods contain smoked bacon?
Open Food Facts lists smoked bacon in the ingredients of 491 products, most often ready meals, sandwiches and pizzas, pies and quiches. Most of them are sold in France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 188 · Germany 116 · United Kingdom 105 · Switzerland 37.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where smoked bacon turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is smoked bacon?
Smoked bacon is a kind of bacon.
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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: Smoked bacon
- 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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