Arabinogalactan

Arabinogalactan carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 10 indexed US food products.

Source-backed answer

Arabinogalactan appears in 10 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “Approved.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.

10
catalogued products
#15,180
usage rank of 247,206
5
named brands represented
58%
average depth down ingredient lists

Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.

High-volume listing for Arabinogalactan - usage rank #15,180

Usage rank
#15,180
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
58%
Averaged label depth puts Arabinogalactan in the lower half of the list (58% of list length, mean slot 21.8). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.

How to use this page

Audit the co-occurring flags first

50% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Arabinogalactan as the trigger. Open records such as Anytime Bar; Anytime bars; Anytime bars and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 92.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 58% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

50% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 10 of 10 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Function

EMULSIFIER OR EMULSIFIER SALT, FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT, FORMULATION AID, HUMECTANT, NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT, PROCESSING AID, STABILIZER OR THICKENER, SYNERGIST, TEXTURIZER

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 10 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.

Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Arabinogalactan

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 7580859095100105 00.511.522.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Arabinogalactan Anytime BarAnytime barsAnytime barsOxy Greens Daily Super Greens Forest BerriesoxygreensUltra Source of Life LiquidWhey Protein + ProbioticsWhey Protein +ProbioticsEmergen C Immune Blueberry AcaiExtend nutrition, anytime bar, chocolate peanut butter
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Arabinogalactan vs other top-decile catalog footprints

High-volume peers for Arabinogalactan: 10 products, mean screening score 92/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Arabinogalactan page

10 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Arabinogalactan are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Open the product sample for Arabinogalactan and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
  • Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

How should I read safety signals when Arabinogalactan sits in heavily flagged products?

50% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Arabinogalactan is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Arabinogalactan scores 3/5 on this site's screening scale with FDA SAFFA status "Approved". None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Arabinogalactan?

Arabinogalactan ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

What function does Arabinogalactan serve when it appears beside other flagged additives?

Arabinogalactan is recorded as a emulsifier or emulsifier salt, flavoring agent or adjuvant, formulation aid, humectant, nutrient supplement, processing aid, stabilizer or thickener, synergist, texturizer in source technical-effect fields. In high co-flag products, that function coexists with other caution-marked components — inspect the full list rather than isolating this role.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Arabinogalactan). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.