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Modified potato starch on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Modified potato starch is a kind of modified starch. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 8,482 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does modified potato starch contain an allergen?
Modified potato 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 potato starch vegan?
Yes. Modified potato starch is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does modified potato starch have on a label?
On European labels it is “amidon modifié de pomme de terre” in French, “modifizierte Kartoffelstärke” in German and “almidón modificado de patata” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- amidon modifié de pomme de terre, amidon modifié de pommes de terre
- German
- modifizierte Kartoffelstärke
- Spanish
- almidón modificado de patata, almidon de patata modificado
- Italian
- amido di patate modificiate, amido modificato di patata
- Dutch
- gemodificeerd aardappelzetmeel
- Portuguese
- amido modificado de batata, amido de batata modificado
- Polish
- skrobia modyfikowana ziemniaczana, skrobia ziemniaczana modyfikowana
- Swedish
- modifierad potatisstärkelse
- Danish
- modificeret kartoffelstivelse
- Norwegian
- modifisert potetstivelse
- Finnish
- muunnettu perunatärkkelys, modifioitu perunatärkkelys
- Czech
- modifikovaný bramborový škrob
- Hungarian
- módosított burgonyakeményítő
- Romanian
- amidon modificat din cartofi
- Croatian
- modificirani krumpirov škrob
Which foods contain modified potato starch?
Open Food Facts lists modified potato starch in the ingredients of 8,482 products, most often ready meals, biscuits and cakes and sweets. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 4,074 · United States 1,669 · United Kingdom 572 · Netherlands 505.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where modified potato starch turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is modified potato starch?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, modified potato starch sits under modified starch and potato starch.
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- Open Food Facts: Modified potato 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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