Create allergy card
← Browse ingredients

Pig Ear

Pig ear is pork offal with a firm, gelatinous texture, commonly braised, grilled, boiled, or served cold in salads.

Pig Ear — illustrative ingredient image

About Pig Ear

Pig ear is the external ear of a pig, including skin, cartilage, connective tissue, and attached fat. It is commonly sold whole, split, sliced, or cooked and chilled. The raw piece is pale pink to beige with a layered, firm structure.

Cooking softens the skin and connective tissue while the cartilage can remain resilient and crunchy. Pig ear may be braised, boiled, simmered, grilled, roasted, fried, or served cold after cooking.

Sliced pig ear is used in salads, noodle dishes, mixed cold plates, stews, and seasoned snacks. Its flavour is relatively mild and pork-like, taking on the taste of marinades, sauces, spices, or smoke. Cooking changes the raw firm structure into a softer piece with potentially crunchy cartilage.

Ingredient type
whole food

FOLLOW IT TO THE PLATE

Where will you meet it?

Explore the dishes that use this ingredient and their country and cuisine connections.

Explore linked dishes

ON A MENU OR LABEL

Find local names and written forms to help recognise this ingredient.

See local names

Where pig ear appears

1 linked foods

Find foods to recognise by country and type. Recipes and products vary; these are recorded ingredient connections.

Showing 1–1 of 1

Snacks

Ingredient connections awaiting review · Coverage is still growing, including packaged snacks.

Name examples awaiting language review. Confirm the specific food or product.

Local names for pig ear

Names and romanised forms to recognise on menus and labels.

English

Pig Ear

Available names only. Languages may be spoken in other countries; a name alone does not identify every ingredient in a dish.

Pig Ear nutrition & diet

Pig Ear nutritional value

Pork, fresh, variety meats and by-products, ears, frozen, raw

Per 100 g of the edible portion in the recorded food form.

Calories
234kcal
Protein
22.4g
Carbs
0.6g
Fat
15.1g

Per 100 g of the named reference food. Preparation, cultivar and product formulation can change these values; use the stated form when comparing.

Portions & preparation

Use the edible cooked ear tissue and distinguish skin, cartilage, meat, and any attached fat. Braising, boiling, grilling, frying, smoking, and cold salad preparations may add oil, sauce, sugar, or broth, so a plain cooked portion should not represent every serving style.

Compare the right form: Match references to cooked pig ear with skin, cartilage, meat, and attached fat defined, plus the same braising, grilling, frying, or serving method.

Diet considerations

Pig ear is animal-derived. Compatibility changes with marinades, sauces, frying coatings, cereal ingredients, animal fats, and mixed salads or soups. Plain cooked ear differs from breaded or sweetened preparations in carbohydrate pattern, while portion size and the proportion of cartilage, skin, meat, and fat affect the relevant comparison.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Typically incompatible
  • Vegetarian
    Typically incompatible
  • Pescatarian
    Typically incompatible
  • Keto
    May be compatible
  • Paleo
    May be compatible
  • Low-carb
    May be compatible
  • Halal
    Typically incompatible
  • Kosher
    Typically incompatible
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Typically incompatible
The ingredient profile identifies an animal-derived food or derivative.
Vegetarian · Typically incompatible
The profile identifies animal flesh, seafood or a derivative excluded by a vegetarian diet.
Pescatarian · Typically incompatible
The profile identifies land-animal meat or a derivative, which is excluded by this pescatarian definition.
Keto · May be compatible
The plain form may fit a carbohydrate-restricted diet. Check the portion, added sugar, coatings and sauces against the nutrition values above.
Paleo · May be compatible
May fit a paleo pattern, depending on the cut or form, processing and added ingredients.
Low-carb · May be compatible
The plain form may fit a carbohydrate-restricted diet. Check the portion, added sugar, coatings and sauces against the nutrition values above.
Halal · Typically incompatible
This profile identifies pork or a pork-derived ingredient.
Kosher · Typically incompatible
This profile identifies pork or a pork-derived ingredient.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

AI-generated illustration for visual context. It does not identify a particular product or establish allergen content.

Sources & review

Nutrition reference: USDA FoodData Central — Pork, fresh, variety meats and by-products, ears, frozen, raw ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

Last recorded verification: .