Ingredient dictionary
Cassava flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Cassava flour is a kind of cassava. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 645 products, most often in savoury snacks.
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Does cassava flour contain an allergen?
Cassava flour is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.
Is cassava flour vegan?
Yes. Cassava flour is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does cassava flour have on a label?
On European labels it is “farine de manioc” in French, “Maniokmehl” in German and “farina di manioca” in Italian. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- farine de manioc
- German
- Maniokmehl
- Italian
- farina di manioca
- Dutch
- maniokmeel
- Polish
- mąka z manioku
- Swedish
- maniokmjöl
- Hungarian
- maniókaliszt
- Croatian
- brašno od kasave
Which foods contain cassava flour?
Open Food Facts lists cassava flour in the ingredients of 645 products, most often savoury snacks, biscuits and cakes and ready meals. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Canada.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 480 · France 82 · Canada 22 · United Kingdom 15.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cassava flour turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is cassava flour?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, cassava flour sits under cassava and flour.
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An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.
- Open Food Facts: Cassava flour
- Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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