Ingredient dictionary
Modified starch on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Modified starch is a kind of starch. Some kinds of modified starch carry an allergen (gluten). It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 110,587 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does modified starch contain an allergen?
It depends on the kind. Some kinds of modified starch carry an allergen: modified wheat starch and partially modified wheat starch contain gluten. A label must name the allergen, so check which kind it says.
Is modified starch vegan?
Yes. Modified starch is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does modified starch have on a label?
In English modified starch can also read “modified starches”, “modified food starch” or “modified food starches”. On European labels it is “amidon transformé” in French, “modifizierte Stärke” in German and “almidón modificado” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- amidon transformé, amidon modifié
- German
- modifizierte Stärke
- Spanish
- almidón modificado, almidones modificados
- Italian
- amido modificato, Amidi modificati
- Dutch
- gemodificeerd zetmeel, Gemodificeerde zetmelen
- Portuguese
- amido modificado
- Polish
- modyfikowana skrobia, skrobia modyfikowana
- Swedish
- modifierad stärkelse
- Danish
- modificeret stivelse
- Norwegian
- modifisert stivelse
- Finnish
- muunnettu tärkkelys, modifioitu tärkkelys
- Czech
- Modifikovaný škrob
- Hungarian
- Módosított keményítő
- Romanian
- amidon modificat
- Croatian
- modificirani škrob, modificiran škrob
Which foods contain modified starch?
Open Food Facts lists modified starch or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 110,587 products, most often ready meals, dressings and sauces and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 51,368 · France 26,434 · Germany 9,674 · United Kingdom 4,645.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where modified starch turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is modified starch?
Modified starch is a kind of starch.
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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 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
- Wikipedia: Modified starch
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