Ingredient dictionary
Rice starch on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Rice 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 10,642 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does rice starch contain an allergen?
Rice 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 rice starch vegan?
Yes. Rice starch is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does rice starch have on a label?
On European labels it is “amidon de riz” in French, “Reisstärke” in German and “almidon de arroz” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.
- French
- amidon de riz
- German
- Reisstärke
- Spanish
- almidon de arroz, amido de arroz
- Italian
- amido di riso
- Dutch
- rijstzetmeel
- Portuguese
- amido de arroz
- Polish
- Skrobia ryżowa
- Swedish
- risstärkelse
- Danish
- risstivelse
- Finnish
- riisitärkkelys
- Czech
- rýžový škrob
- Hungarian
- rizskeményítő
- Croatian
- rižin škrob
Which foods contain rice starch?
Open Food Facts lists rice starch or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 10,642 products, most often ready meals, biscuits and cakes and sweets. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 3,982 · United States 3,393 · Germany 861 · United Kingdom 711.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where rice starch turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is rice starch?
Rice 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: Rice 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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