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Cassava on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Cassava is a kind of starchy root vegetable. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,663 products, most often in savoury snacks.

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Does cassava contain an allergen?

Cassava 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 vegan?

Yes. Cassava is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does cassava have on a label?

In English cassava can also read “cassava root”, “manioc” or “manioc root”. On European labels it is “manioc” in French, “Maniok” in German and “manioca” in Italian. The other 11 languages are listed below.

In Englishcassava rootmaniocmanioc rootyucayuca root
French
manioc, racine de manioc
German
Maniok, Cassave
Italian
manioca
Dutch
maniok, cassave
Portuguese
mandioca
Polish
kassawa
Swedish
maniok
Danish
kassava, maniok
Norwegian
maniok
Finnish
maniokki, kassava
Czech
maniok jedlý
Hungarian
manióka
Croatian
manioka
Turkish
manyok

Which foods contain cassava?

Open Food Facts lists cassava or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 1,663 products, most often savoury snacks, biscuits and cakes and ready meals. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Thailand.

  • Savoury snacks201
  • Biscuits and cakes167
  • Ready meals124
  • Sweetened drinks63
  • Pasta, rice and flour48
  • Milk and yoghurt41

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 906 · France 397 · Thailand 80 · Brazil 47.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where cassava turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is cassava?

In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, cassava sits under starchy root vegetable and tuber.

Kinds of cassavaCassava flourRaw cassava

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Cassava
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  4. Wikipedia: Cassava

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