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Modified tapioca starch on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Modified tapioca starch is a kind of modified starch. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 5,740 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does modified tapioca starch contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link modified tapioca starch to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is modified tapioca starch vegan?
Yes. Modified tapioca starch is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does modified tapioca starch have on a label?
In English modified tapioca starch can also read “modified manioc starch”. On European labels it is “amidon modifié de tapioca” in French, “modifizierte Tapiokastärke” in German and “almidón modificado de tapioca” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.
- French
- amidon modifié de tapioca, amidon transformé de tapioca
- German
- modifizierte Tapiokastärke
- Spanish
- almidón modificado de tapioca, almidón modificado de mandioca
- Italian
- amido modificato di tapioca
- Dutch
- gemodificeerd tapiocazetmeel
- Portuguese
- amido modificado de tapioca
- Polish
- Skrobia modyfikowana z tapioki
- Swedish
- modifierad tapiokastärkelse, modifierad tapioka stärkelse
- Danish
- modificeret tapiokastivelse
- Norwegian
- modifisert tapiokastivelse
- Finnish
- muunnettu tapiokatärkkelys
- Hungarian
- módosított tápiókakeményítő
- Croatian
- modificirani škrob tapioke
Which foods contain modified tapioca starch?
Open Food Facts lists modified tapioca starch in the ingredients of 5,740 products, most often ready meals, biscuits and cakes and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2,225 · France 2,136 · United Kingdom 404 · Germany 204.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where modified tapioca starch turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is modified tapioca starch?
Modified tapioca starch is a kind of modified starch.
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- Open Food Facts: Modified tapioca 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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