Ingredient dictionary
Corn flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Corn flour is a kind of corn. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 25,190 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 361 kcal and 6.2 g protein.
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Does corn flour contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link corn flour to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is corn flour vegan?
Yes. Corn flour is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does corn flour have on a label?
In English corn flour can also read “maize flour” or “cornflour”. On European labels it is “farine de maïs” in French, “Maismehl” in German and “harina de maíz” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- farine de maïs, farine de mais
- German
- Maismehl
- Spanish
- harina de maíz, harina maiz
- Italian
- farina di mais
- Dutch
- maïsmeel, maismeel
- Portuguese
- farinha de milho
- Polish
- mąka kukurydziana
- Swedish
- majsmjöl
- Danish
- majsmel
- Norwegian
- maismel
- Finnish
- maissijauho, maissijauhoa
- Czech
- kukuřičná mouka
- Hungarian
- kukoricaliszt
- Romanian
- făină de porumb, faina de porumb
- Croatian
- kukuruzno brašno
Which foods contain corn flour?
Open Food Facts lists corn flour or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 25,190 products, most often biscuits and cakes, ready meals and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 9,398 · United Kingdom 5,945 · France 4,169 · Germany 1,610.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where corn flour turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in corn flour?
Corn flour has about 361 kcal per 100 g, with 6.2 g protein, 78 g carbohydrate and 2.1 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Maize/corn flour” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0.6 g, saturated fat 0.3 g, fibre 2.6 g, salt 0 g, energy 1,530 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 9545. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is corn flour?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, corn flour sits under corn 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: Corn 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
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