Carrageenan Gum
Carrageenan Gum appears in 349 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Carrageenan Gum appears in 349 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 349
- catalogued products
- #1,331
- usage rank of 247,206
- 107
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 159 of 349 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2 Layer Cake; 7-eleven fresh to go, football iced sugar cookie; 8" double layer lemon cake to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Carrageenan Gum itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
159 of 349 linked records have some flagged component
All 349 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Carrageenan Gum: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,331 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,331
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 349 products, listed in more products than 99.5% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Mean relative depth 56% across 349 parsed labels, slot 23.6 on average. Carrageenan Gum tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What else is usually in the same product as Carrageenan Gum
Across the 349 products on this site that list Carrageenan Gum, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 11.1x more often with Carrageenan Gum than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Carrageenan Gum products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 54 | 15.5% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 48 | 13.8% | 4.8% |
| Blue 1 | 48 | 13.8% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 45 | 12.9% | 5.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 41 | 11.7% | 2.4% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 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 Carrageenan Gum
Products Containing Carrageenan Gum
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 349 indexed products containing Carrageenan Gum:
High-volume peers for Carrageenan Gum beside “Fruit Juice Concentrate”
Carrageenan Gum sits among other busy catalog rows (349 products, mean score 81/100). Nearest count peers include “Fruit Juice Concentrate”, “Garlic Extract”, “Alaska Pollock”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Carrageenan Gum record
Start from Carrageenan Gum's 349 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Carrageenan Gum and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Carrageenan Gum next to “Garlic Extract” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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
Does Carrageenan Gum carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Carrageenan Gum. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Carrageenan Gum? ▼
Carrageenan Gum ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,331 of 247,206), appearing in 349 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Carrageenan Gum so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Carrageenan Gum appears in 349 products (#1,331 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Carrageenan Gum). 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.