Ingredient dictionary
Potato starch on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Potato starch is a kind of starch. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 46,178 products, most often in ready meals. Per 100 g: about 348 kcal and 0 g protein.
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Does potato starch contain an allergen?
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 potato starch vegan?
Yes. Potato starch is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does potato starch have on a label?
On European labels it is “amidon de pommes de terre” in French, “Kartoffelstärke” in German and “fécula de patata” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- amidon de pommes de terre, amidon de pomme de terre
- German
- Kartoffelstärke, Kartoffelmehl
- Spanish
- fécula de patata, Almidón de papa
- Italian
- fecola di patate, amido di patata
- Dutch
- aardappelzetmeel
- Portuguese
- amido de batata, fecula de batata
- Polish
- skrobia ziemniaczana
- Swedish
- potatisstärkelse
- Danish
- kartoffelstivelse, Kartoffelmel
- Norwegian
- potetstivelse
- Finnish
- perunatärkkelys
- Czech
- Bramborový škrob
- Hungarian
- burgonyakeményítő
- Romanian
- amidon din cartofi, amidon de cartofi
- Croatian
- krumpirov škrob, krumpirov skrob
Which foods contain potato starch?
Open Food Facts lists potato starch or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 46,178 products, most often ready meals, biscuits and cakes and cheese. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 15,829 · United States 12,547 · United Kingdom 4,061 · Germany 3,971.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where potato starch turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in potato starch?
Potato starch has about 348 kcal per 100 g, with 0 g protein, 86 g carbohydrate and 0.2 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Potato starch” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 1.3 g, saturated fat 0 g, fibre 0.6 g, salt 0.01 g, energy 1,480 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 4090. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is potato starch?
Potato 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: 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
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
- Wikipedia: Potato starch
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