This is a list of traditional specialties guaranteed by country. Traditional specialities guaranteed (TSGs, singular traditional speciality guaranteed) are traditional food products protected under EU and/or UK law. This label differs from the geographical indications protected designation of origin (PDO) and protected geographical indication (PGI) in that the TSG quality scheme does not certify that the protected food product has a link to a specific geographical area, and thus a TSG product can be produced outside the area or country from which it originates. To qualify for the TSG label, a food product must be of "specific character" and its raw materials, production method, or processing must be "traditional".
All EU TSG registered before 1 January 2021 are also valid in the UK. The EU publishes its designations in the TSG database, and the UK in its TSG register. As of 31 July 2026, 57 names were registered under UK law and 72 under EU law.
Multiple countries Countries Product name Law Short description ImageCzech Republic and Slovakia / Tradičná Lovecká saláma EU/UK Tradiční Lovecký salám (Czech) / Tradičná Lovecká saláma (Slovak) is a fermented meat product produced from mainly from pork, containing also beef. The products is produced in rectangular blocks.Czech Republic and Slovakia EU/UK Spišské párky is a smoked dry sausage contained in sheep intestines (of <24 mm) with a weight of about 50 grams. The main ingredient is pork, but it also contains beef. The sausage is seasoned with sweet and hot paprika, which gives it a slightly spicy taste and a "pinkish-red" colour.Czech Republic and SlovakiaLiptovská saláma / Liptovský salám EU/UK Liptovská saláma (Slovak) / Liptovský salám (Czech) is a type of salami made of pork and beef. It is adapted from the Czechoslovak Industry standard ON 57 6913, which was adopted in 1978.Czech Republic and Slovakia / Tradičné špekačky EU/UK Tradiční špekáčky (Czech) / Tradičné špekačky (Slovak) is a cooked meat product consisting of pieces of bacon mixed in a collagen. The sausage has a weight of 65-85 gram, a length of 8–9 cm and a diameter of 4.0-4.6 cm.
Austria Product name Law Short description ImageHeumilch / Haymilk / Latte fieno / Lait de foin / Leche de heno EU/UK Heumilch (German) or Haymilk is cow's milk produced from animals that have only been fed with grass or hay, and not with fermented fodder or wet grass products.Schaf-Heumilch / Sheep's Haymilk / Latte fieno di pecora / Lait de foin de brebis / Leche de heno de oveja EU/UK Sheep's milk produced according to these specifications comes from sheep, which are "fed fresh grass, leguminous plants and foliage during the 'green-feeding period', and hay in the winter period."Ziegen-Heumilch / Goat's Haymilk / Latte fieno di capra / Lait de foin de chèvre / Leche de heno de cabra EU/UK Goat's milk produced according to these specifications comes from sheep, which are "fed fresh grass, leguminous plants and foliage during the 'green-feeding period', and hay in the winter period."
Belgium Product name Law Short description Image Vieille Gueuze / Vieille Gueuze-Lambic / Vieux Lambic / Oude Geuze / Oude Geuze-Lambiek / Oude Lambiek EU/UK Vieille Gueuze or Vieille Gueuze-Lambic results from a blend of Lambics the weighted average age of which is one year or more, the oldest component having been aged in wooden barrels for at least three years. Vieille Kriek / Vieille Kriek-Lambic / Vieille Framboise-Lambic / Vieux fruit-Lambic / Oude Kriek / Oude Kriekenlambiek / Oude Frambozenlambiek / Oude Fruit-lambiek EU/UK According to the application, "Vieille Kriek or Vieille Kriek-Lambic results from a blend of Lambics in which the weighted average age is one year or more and the oldest component of which has been aged in wooden barrels for at least a year".
Bulgaria Product name Law Short description Image Суджук Търновски / Sudzhuk Tarnovski / Търновски Суджук / Tarnovski Sudzhuk EU A kind of sujukКайсерован врат Тракия / Kayserovan vrat Trakiya EU/UK Кайсерован врат Тракия / Kayserovan vrat Trakiya is a meat product from boneless pork collar which is raw cured and pressed. After salting and dryging, it is rubbed in a "Kaiser mixture" consisting of red peppers, fenugreek, garlic, white wine and twine/hemp yarn.ЛуканкаПанагюрска / Lukanka Panagyurska EU/UK ЛуканкаПанагюрска / Lukanka Panagyurska a type of Lukanka (semi-dried salami) with a flattened cylindrical shape and brownish-red interior in a skin covered with a white fungus as originally produced near Panagyurska. Lukanka Panagyurska is produced from beef (60%) and pork, seasoned with black and white pepper, cumin, sugar and cooking salt.Пастърма говежда / Pastarma Govezhda EU/UK Пастърма говежда / Pastarma Govezhda is a dried (raw) meat product, which tastes like matured beef, and which was produced without any spices or foreign flavours. It is flattened using wooden presses, which leads to its oblong shape.Суджук Търновски / Sudzhuk Tarnovski / Търновски Суджук / Tarnovski Sudzhuk EU Суджук Търновски / Sudzhuk Tarnovski / Търновски Суджук / Tarnovski Sudzhuk is a horse shoe shaped pressed meat product made from "ground beef, auxiliary ingredients and natural seasonings (black or white pepper, savory, cardamom and allspice), stuffed into natural bovine or porcine small intestine casing with a diameter of up to 40 mm". It was named after Veliko Tarnovo, capital city of the Second Bulgarian Empire.Луканка Троянска / Lukanka Troyanska / Троянска луканка / Troyanska lukanka EU Луканка Троянска / Lukanka Troyanska / Троянска луканка / Troyanska lukanka is a dried (raw) meat product.Роле Трапезица / Role Trapezitsa EU/UK Роле Трапезица / Role Trapezitsa is a meat product named after the hill Trapezitsa, Ta hill in Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria's old capital). It is prepared using frozen and chilled pork, seasoned with black or white pepper and garlic "stuffed into a casing made of bovine blind gut or collagen and netting and bound with twine". / File Elena EU/UK Филе Елена / File Elena is a pork tenderloin based product which originates from the town Elena, which is produced from chilled and frozen pork.
Croatia Product name Law Short description ImageVrbovečka pera EU 'Vrbovečka pera is a savoury or sweet pie similar to a cheese pizza. It has a thickness of about 2 centimeters (and 3 cm at the edges) and a diameter of about 35 cm. Its filling consists of cow milk based cottage cheese, milk, cream and eggs.
Czech Republic Product name Law Short description ImagePražská šunka/Prague ham EU/UK Pražská šunka () is a type of brine-cured, stewed, and mildly beechwood-smoked boneless hamPrague Ham originally from Prague in Bohemia (Czech Republic). When cooked on the bone, it is called šunka od kosti ("Ham off the bone"), considered a delicacy. It was first marketed in the 1860s by Antonín Chmel, a pork butcher from Prague's Zvonařka ("Bell-Maker street") on the Nuselské schody (The Nusle Steps). As TSG, it is protected in all languages of the European Union as well as Serbian.
Finland Product name Law Short description ImageKarjalanpiirakka EU/UK Karjalanpiirakka (lit. tr.: Karelian pasties), are traditional pasties or pirogs originating from the region of Karelia. They are eaten throughout Finland as well as in adjacent areas such as Estonia and northern Russia. The oldest traditional pasties usually had a rye crust, but the North Karelian and Ladoga Karelian variants also contained wheat to improve the baking characteristics. The common fillings were barley and talkkuna. In the 19th century, first potato and buckwheat were introduced as fillings, and later also rice and millet. Today, the most familiar and common version has a thin rye crust with a filling of rice. Mashed potato and rice-and-carrot fillings are also commonly available. Butter, often mixed with chopped-up boiled egg (egg butter or munavoi), is spread over the hot pasties before eating.Kalakukko EU/UK Kalakukko is a traditional food from the Finnish region of Savonia made from fish (e.g. perch, vendace, roach, smelt or salmon) baked inside a loaf of bread. Kalakukko is especially popular in Kuopio, capital city of the Northern Savonia region.Sahti EU/UK Sahti is a Finnish type of farmhouse ale made from malted and unmalted grains including barley and rye. Traditionally the beer is flavored with juniper in addition to, or instead of, hops;Peter Ovell, "Finland's Indigenous Beer Culture." Perinteisen Oluen Seura, Special Publications No 1, 1996. Helsinki. (accessed 2017-11-21) the mash is filtered through juniper twigs into a trough-shaped tun, called a kuurna in Finnish. Sahti is top-fermented and many have a banana flavor due to isoamyl acetate from the use of baking yeast, although ale yeast may also be used in fermenting. The end product is a cloudy beer with phenolic flavors and a distinct taste similar to banana, balanced by the bitterness from the juniper branches. The carbonation level tends to be very low. Sahti was traditionally brewed as a farmhouse ale,Matti Räsänen, "Vom Halm zum Faß." Kansatieteellinen arkisto, Helsinki, 1975. . but commercial versions are now available. Commercial sahti is usually 8% ABV. In Finland, due to the higher percentage of alcohol in sahti, it is only sold in commercial sahti breweries, pubs or state-owned Alko stores, not in regular markets or grocery stores. Sahti has to be stored cold until consumption and is therefore not available in all Alko branches.
France Product name Law Short description ImageBœuf traditionnel de race Normande EU Normande beef EU/UK Berthoud is an oven dish made exclusively from Abondance cheese, Savoy wine, either Madeira or Port, garlic, pepper and (optionally) nutmeg. It is to be served in a dedicated porcelain dish (assiette à Berthoud).Moules de EU/UK Moules de bouchot is a type of mussels that is exposed to outgoing tides and thus has developed strong adductor muscle and is hardened by sun and air during low tide. They may be of the genera Mytilus edulis and Mytilus galloprovincialis (or a cross of these two).
Germany Product name Law Short description ImageKräuterhefe / Herbal yeast / Lievito di erbe / Levure d’herbes / Levadura herbaria EU Herbal yeast consists of lysed cells of Candida utilis
Hungary Product name Law Short description ImageRögös túró EU/UK Rögös túró is a curd cheese characterized by its lumpy cauliflower-like texture, due to the gentle methods for removal of the superfluous whey (decanting or by gravitational methods; without pressing). EU/UK Tepertős pogácsa is a bakery product with a cylindrical shape (of about 4 cm diameter and 40 gr.) filled with pig fat and chopped pork crackling.
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