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Bone marrow

Also called marrow

Bone marrow is considered offal. Cooks treat it as such.

  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens
  • Pork depends on the product

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Bone marrow, in dish

Photo: Прикли · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

On the table

Dishes made with bone marrow

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.
  • Pemmican

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include bone marrow.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: bone marrow in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
Depends on the product (depends on which animal the meat comes from)

Around the world

What bone marrow is called

Names in 104 languages, from Wikidata.
  • Spanish

    médula ósea · Medula osea

  • French

    moelle osseuse

  • Italian

    midollo osseo

  • Portuguese

    medula óssea

  • German

    Knochenmark · Medulla osseum

  • Dutch

    beenmerg

  • Greek

    Μυελός των οστών

  • Turkish

    Kemik iliği

  • Russian

    костный мозг

  • Polish

    szpik kostny

  • Arabic

    نخاع العظام · نخاع عظم · النخاع العظمي · نخاع العظم

  • Persian

    مغز استخوان

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  • Afrikaans

    Beenmurg

  • Aragonese

    Miollo osio

  • Armenian

    Ոսկրածուծ

  • Asturian

    médula

  • Atikamekw

    Win

  • Azerbaijani

    Sümük iliyi

  • Bangla

    অস্থিমজ্জা

  • Banjar

    Sungsum tulang

  • Basque

    hezur-muin

  • Belarusian

    касцявы мозг

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    шпік · касьцявы шпік

  • Bosnian

    Koštana srž

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Medula óssea

  • Bulgarian

    Костен мозък

  • Burmese

    ချဉ်ဆီ · ရိုးတွင်းချဉ်ဆီ

  • Cantonese

    骨髓

  • Catalan

    medul·la òssia

  • Central Kurdish

    مۆخی ئێسک

  • Chinese

    骨髓

  • Cornish

    mer eskern

  • Croatian

    koštana srž

  • Czech

    kostní dřeň · medulla ossium

  • dag

    kɔb mari

  • Danish

    knoglemarv

  • Esperanto

    osta medolo · medolo

  • Estonian

    luuüdi

  • Filipino

    Bulalo

  • Finnish

    luuydin

  • Galician

    medula ósea

  • Georgian

    ძვლის ტვინი

  • Guarani

    Karaku

  • Hausa

    bone marrow

  • Hebrew

    מח עצם · לשד העצמות

  • Hindi

    मज्जा

  • Hungarian

    csontvelő

  • hyw

    Ոսկրածուծ

  • Ido

    Medulo

  • Inari Sami

    oođâ

  • Indonesian

    Sumsum tulang

  • Interlingua

    medulla ossee · medulla de osso

  • Irish

    smior

  • Japanese

    骨髄

  • Javanese

    Sumsum balung

  • Kannada

    ಎಲುಬು ಮಜ್ಜೆ

  • Kashmiri

    وَس

  • Kazakh

    Сүйек майы

  • Korean

    골수

  • Kurdish

    Moxê hestî · mejiyê hestî

  • Latin

    Medulla ossium

  • Latvian

    Kaulu smadzenes

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    Medula de osos

  • Lithuanian

    kaulų čiulpai

  • Low German

    Knakenmark

  • Lule Sami

    adám

  • Macedonian

    коскена срж

  • Malagasy

    Tsoka

  • Malay

    Sumsum tulang

  • Malayalam

    അസ്ഥിമജ്ജ

  • Manchu

    ᡠᠮᡤᠠᠨ

  • Mongolian

    Чөмөг

  • Moroccan Arabic

    أديف عضمي

  • Northern Sami

    ađa

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    beinmarg

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    beinmerg · knokkelmerg · medulla ossium

  • Punjabi

    ਹੱਡੀ ਦੀ ਮਿੱਝ

  • Romanian

    măduvă osoasă · măduvă

  • Serbian

    Коштана срж

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Koštana srž

  • Shan

    မၼ်းလုပ်ႇ · မၼ်းဢွၵ်းလုပ်ႇ

  • Shona

    Mongo

  • Sicilian

    Midudda

  • Simplified Chinese

    骨髓

  • Skolt Sami

    õõđ

  • Slovak

    kostná dreň

  • Slovenian

    kostni mozeg

  • Sundanese

    Sungsum tulang

  • Swedish

    benmärg

  • Swiss High German

    Knochenmark

  • Tachelhit

    adif

  • Tamil

    எலும்பு மச்சை

  • Tatar

    сөяк җелеге · җилек · җелек

  • Tatar (Cyrillic)

    җилек · җелек

  • Telugu

    ఎముక మజ్జ

  • Thai

    ไขกระดูก

  • Traditional Chinese

    骨髓

  • Tunisian Arabic (Arabic)

    مخّ العظمة

  • Ukrainian

    кістковий мозок

  • Urdu

    ہڈی کا گودا

  • Uzbek

    Koʻmik · Ko‘mik · Ko`mik · Ko'mik

  • Venetian

    Meoła òsea

  • Vietnamese

    tủy xương · tuỷ xương

  • Waray

    Utok nga bukog

  • Welsh

    mer esgyrn

  • Western Panjabi

    ہڈی دا گودا

  • Wu Chinese

    骨髓

  • Xhosa

    Umongo wethambo

  • Yiddish

    מארך ביין

  • Zhuang

    Ukngviz

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q546523

Photos

Photo: Прикли · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons