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Corn maltodextrin on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Corn maltodextrin is a kind of maltodextrin. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 3,894 products, most often in savoury snacks.
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Does corn maltodextrin contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link corn maltodextrin 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 maltodextrin vegan?
Yes. Corn maltodextrin is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does corn maltodextrin have on a label?
On European labels it is “maltodextrine de maïs” in French, “Mais-Maltodextrin” in German and “maltodextrina de maiz” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.
- French
- maltodextrine de maïs, malto-dextrine de maïs
- German
- Mais-Maltodextrin
- Spanish
- maltodextrina de maiz
- Italian
- maltodestrine di mais, Maltodestrina di Mais
- Dutch
- maïsmaltodextrine
- Portuguese
- maltodextrina de milho
- Polish
- maltodekstryna kukurydziana
- Swedish
- majsmaltodextrin
- Finnish
- maissimaltodekstriini
- Croatian
- kukuruzni maltodekstrin
Which foods contain corn maltodextrin?
Open Food Facts lists corn maltodextrin in the ingredients of 3,894 products, most often savoury snacks, ready meals and sweetened drinks. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Canada.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2,302 · France 625 · Canada 486 · Australia 143.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where corn maltodextrin turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is corn maltodextrin?
Corn maltodextrin is a kind of maltodextrin.
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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 maltodextrin
- 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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