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Dextrine in food supplements

450 supplements declared in France contain Dextrine as a substance or active ingredient.

Other names in the Compl'Alim list: dextrine.

Compl'Alim declarations. Compl'Alim, food supplement declarations (France), retrieved 23 October 2026.

What we know about this ingredient

Use classification

  • EPA Safer Chemical Functional Use Classes -> Processing Aids and Additives

  • Safer Chemical Classes -> Green circle - The chemical has been verified to be of low concern

  • Cosmetics -> Binding; Viscosity controlling; Absorbent

PubChem : EPA Safer Choice · 2026-10-29 · https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-ingredients.

Licence.

PubChem : NORMAN Suspect List Exchange · 2026-10-29 · S13 | EUCOSMETICS | Combined Inventory of Ingredients Employed in Cosmetic Products (2000) and Revised Inventory (2006) | DOI:10.5281/zenodo.2624118.

Licence.

No natural occurrence recorded in Wikidata (LOTUS database); this does not prove that the ingredient is synthetic.

Basis: one CosIngThe European Commission's database of cosmetic ingredients. CAS, with no natural occurrence recorded in this database.

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Associated research

ClinicalTrials.gov · A trial is not proof: it tests a hypothesis.

2026-11-01

Other names: dextrina (Spanish), destrina (Italian), Dextrina (Portuguese).

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Same substance in cosmetics: DEXTRIN.

In plain words

À quoi il sert, selon les fabricants

Objectifs les plus souvent annoncés pour les compléments qui en contiennent (Dextrine) : sport (63 produits), digestion (52 produits), immunité (49 produits), minceur / modérateur d'appétit (29 produits), transit (26 produits).

Ce sont les objectifs déclarés par les fabricants à l'administration, pas des effets démontrés. Sur l'emballage, seules les allégations de santé autorisées par l'Union peuvent être écrites.

Compl'Alim, food supplement declarations (France), retrieved 23 October 2026.

What the registers say, country by country

Each line repeats what an official register says on the date it was consulted. Not being in a register means neither allowed nor banned.

Compl'Alim ingredient list (France): listed.

Compl'Alim, reference list of ingredients, retrieved 21 October 2026.

Canada, licensed natural health products (LNHPD): 1 product.

Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD), Health Canada: licensed products, ingredients, doses, uses and risks, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Health Canada, LNHPD)

Licence du gouvernement ouvert – Canada 2.0 (OGL-Canada 2.0)

United States, supplement labels (DSLD; supplements need no prior approval): 55 products.

Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD), US National Institutes of Health: current and off-market labels, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Source: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Dietary Supplement Label Database (CC0); US market labels.

Declared daily quantities

Declared daily quantities: Dextrine
UnitProductsMedianMinimumMaximum
mg35120020,000

Calculated from Compl'Alim declarations that provide a quantity. These are quantities declared by manufacturers, not measurements, and preparation is not distinguished (powder, extract of varying concentration): differences between products can be very large.

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