Corn Allergens

Always read the ingredients on a product label to be sure they don't contain a substance you are allergic or sensitive to. When a complete list of ingredients is not available, you can use the information here as a general guide.

The following is a list of products that may contain corn:

• Adhesives (envelopes, labels, stickers, tapes, stamps)
• Any products that contain cornmeal, corn flour, corn oil, cornstarch, corn sugar, corn syrup or sorbitol.
• Aspirin
• Bacon
• Baking powder (most)
• Bath or body powder
• Beer, ale, gin, whisky
• Biscuits
• Bisquick
• Breads (commercial)
• Brown sugar
• Cake, pancake and pie mixes
• Candied fruit
• Candy
• Canned fruits (sweetened)
• Canned or bottled juice drinks
• Capsules
• Carob (CaraCoa)
• Cereals (presweetened)
• Coffee (instant)
• Coffee Rich
• Confectioner's sugar
• Cookies
• Corn kernels
• Corn cereal
• Corn chips
• Cornmeal
• Corn oil and anything fried in it
• Cornstarch
• Corn sugar
• Corn syrup
• Cottage cheese (thickened)
• Cranberry juice (some)
• Custards
• Doughnuts
• Dried fruits (sweetened)
• Fritos
• Frostings
• Frozen fruits (sweetened)
• Fruit desserts
• Graham crackers
• Gravies
• Ham (cured)
• Hominy
• Hot dogs
• Ice cream
• Infant formulas (Enfamil, Similac, Advance, Portagen, Lofenalac, Isomil, Prosobee, Nursoy
• Powder [not liquid], Soyalac [not I-Soyalac], Pedialyte, Hydrolyzed casein, Nutramigen, Progestimil
• Jellies and gelatin mixes
• Luncheon meats
• Maize
• Milk in paper containers
• Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
• Ointments
• Oleomargarine
• Orange juice (some frozen or sweetened)
• Paper cups, cartons, plates and any liquids contained in them
• Peanut butter (commercial sweetened)
• Pie fillings
• Plastic food wrappers (some)
• Popcorn
• Puddings
• Sandwich spreads
• Sauces that have been thickened but are transparent (e.g. Chinese style)
• Sausages
• Sherbet
• Sticky portion of envelopes and stamps
• Sorbitol
• Succotash
• Suppositories
• Tablets (most medicinal)
• Tea (instant)
• Toothpastes/powders
• Vitamins (some)
• Yogurt (thickened or sweetened)
• Zest soap

A major portion of this list comes from Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Is This Your Child? William Morrow, New York, 1991.