Foods high in Starch

Every food and ingredient below is ranked by measured Starch content per 100 g, drawn live from 105 USDA FoodData Central measurements. Values are laboratory-analysed or survey-derived, not estimated.

Top 25 foods highest in Starch

Ranked by Starch per 100g, across Foundation Foods and FNDDS ingredients.

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (G)
1	Flour, cassava	Foundation Food	79.7
2	Fonio, grain, dry, raw	Foundation Food	78.2
3	Rice, white, long grain, unenriched, raw	Foundation Food	74.4
4	Rice, brown, long grain, unenriched, raw	Foundation Food	71.6
5	Rice, black, unenriched, raw	Foundation Food	71.4
6	Rice, red, unenriched, dry, raw	Foundation Food	70.8
7	Sorghum grain, white, pearled, unenriched, dry, raw	Foundation Food	70.7
8	Sorghum flour, white, pearled, unenriched, dry, raw	Foundation Food	69.7
9	Wild rice, dry, raw	Foundation Food	68.6
10	Corn flour, masa harina, white or yellow, dry, raw	Foundation Food	67.3
11	Millet, whole grain	Foundation Food	67.1
12	Flour, sorghum	Foundation Food	66.3
13	Sorghum, whole grain, white, dry, raw	Foundation Food	65.6
14	Flour, potato	Foundation Food	62.7
15	Bulgur, dry, raw	Foundation Food	62.3
16	Farro, pearled, dry, raw	Foundation Food	61.7
17	Buckwheat, whole grain	Foundation Food	61.6
18	Flour, buckwheat	Foundation Food	59
19	Flour, quinoa	Foundation Food	58.1
20	Khorasan, grain, dry, raw	Foundation Food	57.2
21	Flour, barley	Foundation Food	56.9
22	Einkorn, grain, dry, raw	Foundation Food	56.2
23	Flour, amaranth	Foundation Food	55.7
24	Oats, whole grain, steel cut	Foundation Food	54.9
25	Flour, rye	Foundation Food	54.1

Lowest in Starch

For contrast — the 10 lowest non-zero values on record, per 100g.

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (G)
96	Melons, cantaloupe, raw	Foundation Food	0.02
97	Strawberries, raw	Foundation Food	0.04
98	Nectarines, raw	Foundation Food	0.07
99	Olives, green, Manzanilla, stuffed with pimiento	Foundation Food	0.33
100	Carrots, frozen, unprepared	Foundation Food	0.38
101	Carrots, frozen, unprepared (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.38
102	Bananas, overripe, raw	Foundation Food	0.41
103	Mustard, prepared, yellow	Foundation Food	0.65
104	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, with salt added	Foundation Food	1.5
105	Pawpaw, peeled, seeded, raw	Foundation Food	1.56

More on Starch

What Starch is, how it is measured, and where these values come from.

Starch nutrient reference →

Sourced from USDA FoodData Central — Foundation Foods; not yet through an editorial verification pass.

USDA release 2026-04-30. All values are per 100 g unless stated otherwise.