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Maize flour

Also called corn flour

Maize flour is made from dried, ground maize. Cooks use it as a flour or starch.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Made from
Maize
Cooked most in
Europe, Africa, The Americas
Top country
Ukraine
Maize flour, whole

Photo: Miansari66 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Around the world

Where maize flour is cooked

6 dishes in the catalogue use maize flour. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list maize flour among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with maize flour

5 of the 6 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Kulesha

    Ukraine

  • Amiwô

    Benin

  • Arepa

    Colombia, Venezuela

  • Xerém

    Portugal

  • Cheer

    Ukraine

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include maize flour.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: maize flour in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
maize (dried, ground)
A kind of
flour

Around the world

What maize flour is called

Names in 43 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    harina de maíz · harina de panizo

  • French

    farine de maïs

  • Italian

    farina di mais · farina di granoturco

  • Portuguese

    farinha de milho

  • German

    Maismehl

  • Dutch

    maïsmeel · maïsbloem

  • Turkish

    mısır unu

  • Russian

    кукурузная мука · мука кукурузная

  • Polish

    mąka kukurydziana

  • Arabic

    دقيق الذرة

  • Hebrew

    קמח תירס

  • Urdu

    مکئی کا آٹا

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  • Armenian

    եգիպտացորենի ալյուր

  • Azerbaijani

    qarğıdalı unu

  • Basque

    arto-irin

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    кукурузная мука

  • Catalan

    farina de blat de moro · farina de dacsa · farina de moresc · farina de panís

  • Choctaw

    ta̱shbota

  • Czech

    kukuříčná mouka

  • dag

    kawana zim

  • Esperanto

    maizfaruno

  • Estonian

    maisijahu

  • Finnish

    maissijauho

  • Galician

    fariña de millo

  • Ganda

    Akawunga ka kasooli · Kaposo

  • Guarani

    Avati ku'i

  • Hungarian

    kukorica liszt

  • hyw

    Եգիպտացորենի ալիւր

  • Irish

    gránphlúr

  • Japanese

    とうもろこし粉 · コーンフラワー · メイズフラワー

  • Korean

    옥수수가루 · 옥수숫가루

  • Macedonian

    пченкарно јадење

  • Romanian

    făină de porumb

  • Serbian

    кукурузно брашно

  • Shona

    hupfu

  • Slovenian

    koruzna moka · moka iz koruze

  • Somali

    soor

  • Swedish

    majsmjöl

  • Tatar

    мәккәй оны

  • Ukrainian

    кукурудзяне борошно

  • Uzbek

    Makkajo'xori uni

  • Vietnamese

    bột bắp · bột ngô

  • Zulu

    Umthubazo wommbila

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q110184114

Photos

Photo: Miansari66 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons