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Potato maltodextrin on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Potato maltodextrin is a kind of maltodextrin. Whether it carries an allergen depends on how it was made. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,026 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does potato maltodextrin contain an allergen?
It depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts does not link potato maltodextrin to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one. The label must name any allergen it carries.
Is potato maltodextrin vegan?
Yes. Potato maltodextrin is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does potato maltodextrin have on a label?
On European labels it is “maltodextrine de pomme de terre” in French, “Kartoffel-Maltodextrin” in German and “maltodextrina de patata” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- maltodextrine de pomme de terre, malto-dextrine de pomme de terre
- German
- Kartoffel-Maltodextrin
- Spanish
- maltodextrina de patata
- Italian
- maltodestrina di patate
- Polish
- maltodekstryna ziemniaczana, maltodekstryna z ziemniaków
- Finnish
- perunamaltodekstriini
- Croatian
- krumpirov maltodekstrin
Which foods contain potato maltodextrin?
Open Food Facts lists potato maltodextrin in the ingredients of 1,026 products, most often ready meals, savoury snacks and poultry. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 414 · United States 344 · United Kingdom 106 · Spain 69.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where potato maltodextrin turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is potato maltodextrin?
Potato maltodextrin is a kind of maltodextrin.
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- Open Food Facts: Potato maltodextrin
- 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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