Rice flour: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in rice flour?

Of 121 packs of rice flour whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 3% list gluten. Another 13% carry a “may contain” line for gluten, 13% for soy and 8% for sesame. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

What is rice flour usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of rice flour list, with the share of packs that list each: rice (99%), rice flour (60%), whole grain rice (12%) and white rice (11%).

• Rice99%
• Rice flour60%
• Whole grain rice12%
• White rice11%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 129 · Italy 53 · Spain 32 · Germany 16.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for rice flour.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food is rice flour?

In the Open Food Facts categories, rice flour is a kind of cereal flour.

What else is rice flour called?

French

Farines de riz, farine de riz

German

Reismehle

Spanish

Harinas de arroz

Italian

Farine di riso

Dutch

Rijstmelen

Portuguese

Farinhas de arroz, farinha de arroz

Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

1. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
2. Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
3. Open Food Facts: Rice flour

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