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

Cornmeal 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 7,233 products, most often in bread.

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Does cornmeal contain an allergen?

It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link cornmeal to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.

Is cornmeal vegan?

Yes. Cornmeal 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 cornmeal have on a label?

In English cornmeal can also read “corn grits”, “corn semolina” or “corn meal”. On European labels it is “semoule de maïs” in French, “Maisgrieß” in German and “semola de maíz” in Spanish. The other 11 languages are listed below.

In Englishcorn gritscorn semolinacorn meal
French
semoule de maïs, semoule de mais
German
Maisgrieß, Maisgriess
Spanish
semola de maíz, granos de maíz
Italian
spezzato di mais, semolino di granoturco
Dutch
Maïsgrits, maisgrut
Portuguese
grãos de milho
Polish
grys kukurydziany, kasza kukurydziana
Swedish
majsgryn
Danish
groftmalet majs
Finnish
maissisuurimo
Czech
kukuřičná krupice
Hungarian
kukoricadara
Romanian
porumb boabe, mălai
Croatian
kukuruzni griz, kukuruzna krupica

Which foods contain cornmeal?

Open Food Facts lists cornmeal or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 7,233 products, most often bread, breakfast cereals and savoury snacks. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.

  • Bread988
  • Breakfast cereals969
  • Savoury snacks774
  • Pasta, rice and flour458
  • Biscuits and cakes335
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches189

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 3,719 · France 1,434 · Germany 654 · Spain 348.

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

What kind of ingredient is cornmeal?

Cornmeal is a kind of corn.

Kinds of cornmealWholegrain maize semolinaDextrinated cornmeal

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Sources

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: Cornmeal
  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: Cornmeal

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