Ingredient dictionary
Sweet potato starch on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Sweet 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 124 products, most often in ready meals.
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Does sweet potato starch contain an allergen?
Sweet 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 sweet potato starch vegan?
Yes. Sweet potato starch is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does sweet potato starch have on a label?
On European labels it is “amidon de patate douce” in French, “Süßkartoffelstärke” in German and “almidón de batata” in Spanish. The other 4 languages are listed below.
- French
- amidon de patate douce
- German
- Süßkartoffelstärke
- Spanish
- almidón de batata
- Italian
- amido di patate dolci
- Dutch
- zoete aardappelzetmeel
- Polish
- skrobia ze słodkich ziemniaków, skrobia z batatów
- Croatian
- škrob od slatkog krumpira
Which foods contain sweet potato starch?
Open Food Facts lists sweet potato starch in the ingredients of 124 products, most often ready meals, pasta, rice and flour and soups. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 50 · France 38 · Germany 12 · Spain 9.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where sweet potato starch turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is sweet potato starch?
Sweet 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: Sweet 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
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