As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 27, 2021

Registration Statement No. 333-            

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

INGREDION INCORPORATED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Ingredion Incorporated Stock Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Janet M. Bawcom

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer

Ingredion Incorporated

5 Westbrook Corporate Center

Westchester, Illinois 60154

(Name and address of agent for service)

(708) 551-2600

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

In accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8, this registration statement incorporates by reference the contents of Registration Statement No. 333-208668 on Form S-8 filed by Ingredion Incorporated (the “Company”) on December 21, 2015, relating to shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the Ingredion Incorporated Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). This registration statement, which is being filed to register an additional 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock available for issuance pursuant to the Plan by an amendment thereto and other provisions thereof, consists of the facing page, this page, other required information, required opinions, consents and other exhibits, and the signature page.

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PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The Company incorporates by reference herein the following documents filed by it with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), other than any portion of such documents or information therein deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with SEC rules:

In addition, the Company incorporates by reference all documents filed by it pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (other than, in each case, documents or information therein deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with SEC rules, unless specifically incorporated by reference in this registration statement) subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold. All such incorporated documents shall be deemed to be a part of this registration statement from the dates of filing of such documents.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this registration statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this registration statement to the extent that a statement contained in this registration statement or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated into this registration statement modifies or supersedes that statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this registration statement.

The validity of the shares of Common Stock being offered by this registration statement has been passed upon by Janet M. Bawcom, the Company’s Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer. As of May 24, 2021, Ms. Bawcom participates in employee benefit plans offered by the Company and holds options, restricted stock units, and performance share units representing the right to acquire up to approximately 59,390 shares of Common Stock issued under such employee benefit plans.

Ingredion Incorporated is incorporated in the State of Delaware.

Delaware General Corporation Law. Section 145(a) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “Delaware General Corporation Law”) provides that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation), by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint

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venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that the person’s conduct was unlawful.

Section 145(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law states that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which the person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Delaware Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the Delaware Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

Section 145(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that to the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 145, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith.

Section 145(d) of the Delaware General Corporation Law states that any indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) of Section 145 (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because the person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 145. Such determination shall be made with respect to a person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination (1) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, (2) by a committee of such directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, (3) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion or (4) by the stockholders.

Section 145(f) of the Delaware General Corporation Law states that the indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the other subsections of Section 145 shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.

Section 145(g) of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a corporation shall have the power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of Section 145.

Section 145(j) of the Delaware General Corporation Law states that the indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, Section 145 shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

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Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws. The Company is empowered by Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law to include a provision in its certificate of incorporation to limit under certain circumstances a director’s liability to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breaches of fiduciary duty as a director. Article Tenth of the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation states that directors of the Company shall not be liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (1) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Company or its stockholders, (2) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3) for unlawful dividend payments, stock repurchases or stock redemptions or (4) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

Article VII of the Company’s By-Laws provides that the Company shall indemnify its directors and officers and the directors against certain liabilities (including attorneys’ fees related thereto) that may arise as a result of such service, or service at the Company’s request as a director or officer of another enterprise, to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law as the same exists now or may hereafter be amended.

Indemnification Agreements. The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with all its executive officers and directors. These agreements provide the executive officers and directors with indemnification against certain liabilities (including attorneys’ fees related thereto) that may arise as a result of such service to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law as the same exists now or may hereafter be amended.

Liability Insurance. The Company maintains insurance policies under which its directors and executive officers are insured, within the limits and subject to the limitations of the policies, against certain expenses in connection with the defense of actions, suits or proceedings, and certain liabilities which might be imposed as a result of such actions, suits or proceedings, to which they are parties by reason of being or having been such directors or executive officers, which could include liabilities under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.

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(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this registration statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(h) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Westchester, State of Illinois, on May 27, 2021.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Janet M. Bawcom and Michael N. Levy, and each of them, as such person’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, from such person and in each person’s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement or any registration statement relating to this registration statement pursuant to Rule 462 under the Securities Act of 1933 and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto such attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated as of May 27, 2021.

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Exhibit 5.1

[Ingredion Incorporated Letterhead]

May 27, 2021

Board of Directors

Ingredion Incorporated

5 Westbrook Corporate Center

Westchester, Illinois 60154

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I am the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of Ingredion Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). I have examined the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) of the Company, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), relating to the registration of 3,000,000 shares (the “Shares”) of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company issuable under the Ingredion Incorporated Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). This opinion letter is being furnished to fulfill the requirements of Item 601(b) (5) of Regulation S-K, 17 C.F.R. § 229.601(b)(5), in connection with the Registration Statement.

For purposes of this opinion letter, I have examined copies of such agreements, instruments and documents as I have deemed an appropriate basis on which to render the opinions hereinafter expressed. In my examination of the aforesaid documents, I have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the accuracy and completeness of all documents reviewed, the authenticity of all original documents, and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to me as copies (including PDFs). As to all matters of fact, I have relied on the representations and statements of fact made in the documents so reviewed, and I have not independently established the facts so relied on. This opinion letter is given, and all statements herein are made, in the context of the foregoing.

This opinion letter is based as to matters of law solely on the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended. I express no opinion herein as to any other statutes, rules or regulations (and, in particular, I express no opinion as to any effect that such other statutes, rules or regulations may have on the opinions expressed herein).

Based upon, subject to and limited by the foregoing, I am of the opinion that following (i) effectiveness of the Registration Statement, (ii) issuance of the Shares that constitute original issuances by the Company in accordance with the applicable resolutions of the Board of Directors and (iii) receipt by the Company of consideration for the Shares specified in the applicable resolutions of the Board of Directors or a duly authorized committee thereof and in the Plan, the Shares that constitute original issuances by the Company will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

Board of Directors

May 27, 2021

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This opinion letter has been prepared for use in connection with the Registration Statement. I assume no obligation to advise of any changes in the foregoing subsequent to the effective date of the Registration Statement.

I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, I do not thereby admit that I am an “expert” within the meaning of the Securities Act.

Exhibit 23.2

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the use of our report dated February 24, 2021, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Ingredion Incorporated, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, incorporated by reference herein.

Our report dated February 24, 2021, on the consolidated financial statements, refers to the Company’s change in its method of accounting for leases effective January 1, 2019 due to the adoption of Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-12, Leases (Topic 842), and its subsequent amendments.

Our report dated February 24, 2021, on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020, expresses our opinion that the Company did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020 because of the effect of a material weakness on the achievement of the objectives of the control criteria and contains an explanatory paragraph that states that a material weakness has been identified and included in management’s assessment related to the ineffective information technology general controls (“ITGCs”) related to user access over certain information technology (“IT”) systems. As a result, the business process automated and manual controls that rely on information derived from the affected IT systems are dependent on the effective design and operation of ITGCs and are therefore also considered ineffective because they could have been adversely impacted. These control deficiencies were the result of insufficient development of IT personnel as the control owners did not adequately understand the control objectives or the design of the control activity, as well as, the result of ineffective timely communication of the control objective to these IT personnel by management.

/s/ KPMG LLP

KPMG LLP

Chicago, Illinois

May 27, 2021