Ingredient dictionary
Rice flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Rice flour is a kind of flour. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 43,695 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 355 kcal and 7.6 g protein.
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Does rice flour contain an allergen?
Rice flour 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 rice flour vegan?
Yes. Rice flour is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does rice flour have on a label?
In English rice flour can also read “riceflour”. On European labels it is “farine de riz” in French, “Reismehl” in German and “harina de arroz” in Spanish. The other 12 languages are listed below.
- French
- farine de riz
- German
- Reismehl
- Spanish
- harina de arroz
- Italian
- farina di riso
- Dutch
- rijstebloem, rijstbloem
- Portuguese
- farinha de arroz
- Polish
- Mąka ryżowa, mąki ryżowa
- Swedish
- rismjöl
- Danish
- rismel
- Norwegian
- rismel
- Finnish
- riisijauho
- Czech
- rýžová mouka
- Hungarian
- rizsliszt
- Romanian
- făină de orez
- Croatian
- rižino brašno
Which foods contain rice flour?
Open Food Facts lists rice flour or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 43,695 products, most often biscuits and cakes, breakfast cereals and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 14,962 · France 11,262 · United Kingdom 4,793 · Germany 4,088.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where rice flour turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in rice flour?
Rice flour has about 355 kcal per 100 g, with 7.6 g protein, 74 g carbohydrate and 2.5 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Rice flour” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0.9 g, saturated fat 0.5 g, fibre 3.3 g, salt 0.06 g, energy 1,500 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 9520. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is rice flour?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, rice flour sits under flour and rice.
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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: Rice flour
- 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
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