Ingredient dictionary
Modified flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Modified flour is a kind of flour. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 184 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does modified flour contain an allergen?
Modified flour 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 flour vegan?
Yes. Modified flour is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does modified flour have on a label?
On European labels it is “farine modifiée” in French, “modifiziertes Mehl” in German and “harina modificada” in Spanish. The other 11 languages are listed below.
- French
- farine modifiée
- German
- modifiziertes Mehl
- Spanish
- harina modificada
- Italian
- farina modificata
- Dutch
- gemodificeerd meel
- Portuguese
- farinha modificada
- Polish
- mąka modyfikowana
- Swedish
- modifierat mjöl
- Danish
- modificeret mel
- Finnish
- muunnettu jauho
- Czech
- modifikovaná mouka
- Hungarian
- módosított liszt
- Romanian
- făină modificată
- Croatian
- modificirano brašno
Which foods contain modified flour?
Open Food Facts lists modified flour or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 184 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and soups. Most of them are sold in the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United Kingdom 148 · France 63 · Germany 13 · Ireland 11.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where modified flour turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is modified flour?
Modified flour is a kind of 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: Modified 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
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