Phosphated distarch phosphate

E number E1413INS 1413

Used as an emulsifier — Codex also lists it as stabilizer, thickener.

This starch is both cross-linked and stabilised, giving a thickener that survives canning and long storage without weeping.

Where it is and isn’t permitted

Status of Phosphated distarch phosphate by jurisdiction. Every jurisdiction this site covers is listed, including those where the substance does not appear.
JurisdictionStatusScope and limitsCitation
United StatesFood and Drug AdministrationNot listedDoes not appear on this jurisdiction’s permitted list. That is not the same as being prohibited.
Codex AlimentariusCodex Alimentarius Commission / JECFAPermitted, with conditions

12 food categories

highest permitted level 50,000 mg/kg

Show every food category
  • 01.2.1.1 Fermented milks (plain), not heat-treated after fermentation — GMP
  • 01.2.1.2 Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation — GMP
  • 01.2.2 Renneted milk (plain) — GMP
  • 01.4.1 Pasteurized cream (plain) — GMP
  • 01.4.2 Sterilized and UHT creams, whipping and whipped creams, and reduced fat creams (plain) — GMP
  • 06.4.1 Fresh pastas and noodles and like products — GMP
  • 06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products — GMP
  • 09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP
  • 11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings) — GMP
  • 13.1.2 Follow-up formulae — 5,000 mg/kg
  • 13.2 Complementary foods for infants and young children — 50,000 mg/kg
  • 14.1.5 Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa — GMP
CXS 192-1995 Table Three, INS 1413and 12 further provisionsretrieved 2026-09-07

What it is made from

Made by both cross-linking starch with a phosphate bridge and attaching single phosphate groups.

  • Vegan
  • Vegetarian

Every name it appears under

4 recorded names. A label may use any of them.

E number

  • E1413

INS number

  • 1413

Other names

  • E 1413
  • PHOSPHATED DISTARCH PHOSPHATE

Hazard reference values

No reference value for this substance in the sources we hold.

Evidence and how bodies read it

Studies, and the differing conclusions regulators drew from them, are curated by hand rather than machine-read, and none has been written for this substance yet.

Sources for this page

  • gsfa retrieved 2026-09-07

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