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Modified corn starch on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Modified corn starch is a kind of corn starch. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 49,685 products, most often in dressings and sauces.
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Does modified corn starch contain an allergen?
Modified corn starch 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 modified corn starch vegan?
Yes. Modified corn starch is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does modified corn starch have on a label?
In English modified corn starch can also read “modified corn starches”, “modified maize starch” or “corn starch modified”. On European labels it is “amidon transformé de maïs” in French, “modifizierte Maisstärke” in German and “Almidón modificado de maiz” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- amidon transformé de maïs, amidon de maïs transformé
- German
- modifizierte Maisstärke
- Spanish
- Almidón modificado de maiz, almidon de maiz modificado
- Italian
- amido modificato di mais, amido di mais modificato
- Dutch
- gemodificeerd maïszetmeel, gemodificeerd maiszetmeel
- Portuguese
- amido de milho modificado, amido modificado de milho
- Polish
- modyfikowana skrobia kukurydziana, modyfikowana skrobia z kukurydzy
- Swedish
- modifierad majsstärkelse
- Danish
- modificeret majsstivelse
- Norwegian
- modifisert maisstivelse
- Finnish
- muunnettu maissitärkkelys, modifioitu maissitärkkelys
- Czech
- Modifikovaný kukuřičný škrob, kukuřičný modifikovaný škrob
- Hungarian
- módosított kukoricakeményítő
- Romanian
- amidon modificat din porumb, amidon modificat de porumb
- Croatian
- modificirani kukuruzni škrob, modificirana kukuruzna škrob
Which foods contain modified corn starch?
Open Food Facts lists modified corn starch in the ingredients of 49,685 products, most often dressings and sauces, ready meals and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 26,528 · France 11,025 · United Kingdom 2,799 · Canada 1,858.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where modified corn starch turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is modified corn starch?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, modified corn starch sits under corn starch and modified starch.
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- Open Food Facts: Modified corn starch
- 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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