Disodium Guanylate
Disodium Guanylate carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 4,427 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Disodium Guanylate appears in 4,427 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.
- 4,427
- catalogued products
- #235
- usage rank of 247,206
- 772
- named brands represented
- 81%
- 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 Disodium Guanylate - usage rank #235
- Usage rank
- #235
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 81%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 4,430 products listing it (mean slot 28.3). Disodium Guanylate usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
53.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Disodium Guanylate as the trigger. Open records such as 100% Vegetable Juice; 11.00Oz Cra Cool Ranch; 16 Bean Soup Mix and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 82.8/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 81% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
53.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 4427 of 4427 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Disodium Guanylate
Across the 4,427 products on this site that list Disodium Guanylate, 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 4.7x more often with Disodium Guanylate than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Disodium Guanylate products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 1,176 | 26.6% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 6 | 654 | 14.8% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 616 | 13.9% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 499 | 11.3% | 5.4% |
| TBHQ | 263 | 5.9% | 0.5% |
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.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
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 Disodium Guanylate
Products Containing Disodium Guanylate
High-volume slice (16 of 4,427) for products naming Disodium Guanylate:
Disodium Guanylate vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Disodium Guanylate: 4,427 products, mean screening score 82.8/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Cyanocobalamin · Raisins · Phosphoric Acid. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Disodium Guanylate evidence
Start from Disodium Guanylate's 4,427 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Disodium Guanylate before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Disodium Guanylate next to “Raisins” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Disodium Guanylate — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Disodium Guanylate sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
53.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Disodium Guanylate is the trigger. Where a source rating exists, Disodium Guanylate 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 Disodium Guanylate? ▼
Disodium Guanylate ranks in the top decile by product count (#235 of 247,206), appearing in 4,427 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What function does Disodium Guanylate serve when it appears beside other flagged additives? ▼
Disodium Guanylate is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant 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 (Disodium Guanylate). 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.