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Tapioca on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Tapioca 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 29,986 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.

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Does tapioca contain an allergen?

Tapioca 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 vegan?

Yes. Tapioca is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does tapioca have on a label?

In English tapioca can also read “tapioca starch” or “manioc starch”. On European labels it is “amidon de tapioca” in French, “Tapioka” in German and “almidón de tapioca” in Spanish. The other 10 languages are listed below.

In Englishtapioca starchmanioc starch
French
amidon de tapioca, amidon de manioc
German
Tapioka, Tapiocastärke
Spanish
almidón de tapioca, almidón de mandioca
Italian
amido di tapioca
Dutch
tapiocazetmeel, tapioca zetmeel
Polish
tapioka, skrobia z tapioki
Swedish
tapioka, tapiokastärkelse
Danish
tapiokastivelse, tapiocastivelse
Norwegian
tapioka, tapiokastivelse
Finnish
tapioka, tapiokatärkkelys
Czech
tapioka, tapiokový škrob
Hungarian
tápióka, tápiókakeményítő
Croatian
tapioka

Which foods contain tapioca?

Open Food Facts lists tapioca or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 29,986 products, most often biscuits and cakes, ready meals and pasta, rice and flour. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and the United Kingdom.

  • Biscuits and cakes3,697
  • Ready meals2,743
  • Pasta, rice and flour1,281
  • Sweets1,207
  • Milk and yoghurt1,099
  • Savoury snacks1,003

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 13,601 · France 7,989 · United Kingdom 2,366 · Germany 1,272.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where tapioca turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is tapioca?

Tapioca is a kind of starch.

Kinds of tapiocaTapioca flourDry tapioca pearls

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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.

  1. Open Food Facts: Tapioca
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  4. Wikipedia: Tapioca

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