Ingredient dictionary
Tapioca flour on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Tapioca 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 2,537 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.
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Does tapioca flour contain an allergen?
Tapioca 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 tapioca flour vegan?
Yes. Tapioca flour is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.
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What other names does tapioca flour have on a label?
On European labels it is “farine de tapioca” in French, “Tapiokamehl” in German and “Harina de tapioca” in Spanish. The other 9 languages are listed below.
- French
- farine de tapioca, fécule de tapioca
- German
- Tapiokamehl
- Spanish
- Harina de tapioca
- Italian
- Farina di tapioca
- Dutch
- tapiocameel
- Portuguese
- Farinha de tapioca
- Polish
- mąka tapiokowa
- Swedish
- tapiokamjöl
- Danish
- Tapiocamel
- Finnish
- tapiokajauho
- Hungarian
- tápiókaliszt
- Croatian
- tapioka brašno
Which foods contain tapioca flour?
Open Food Facts lists tapioca flour in the ingredients of 2,537 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and ready meals. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Products with it, by country of sale: United States 1,661 · France 367 · United Kingdom 128 · Australia 86.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where tapioca flour turns up, not how much of the market it is.
What kind of ingredient is tapioca flour?
In the Open Food Facts ingredient tree, tapioca flour sits under flour and tapioca.
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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: Tapioca 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
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