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Tapioca: allergens and what’s inside

Of 50 packs of tapioca whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 4% list soy and 2% list celery. Another 28% carry a “may contain” line for gluten. Most list tapioca.

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Which allergens are in tapioca?

Of 50 packs of tapioca whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 4% list soy, 2% list celery and 2% list sulphites. Another 28% carry a “may contain” line for gluten, 10% for sulphites and 8% for milk. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Soy allergyHeads up4% list soy; 4% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Celery allergyHeads up2% list celery; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.
Sulphite sensitivityHeads up2% list sulphites; 10% more carry a “may contain” line for them.
Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up28% carry a “may contain” line for gluten.
Milk allergyHeads up8% carry a “may contain” line for milk.
Sesame allergyHeads up8% carry a “may contain” line for sesame.

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 tapioca usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of tapioca list, with the share of packs that list each: tapioca (86%), water (20%) and tapioca flour (12%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 87 · Brazil 32 · Czech Republic 8 · India 7.

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 tapioca.

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 tapioca?

In the Open Food Facts categories, tapioca is a kind of starch.

What else is tapioca called?

French
Tapioca, Tapioca cru
Portuguese
Tapioca

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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: Tapioca

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