Ester Gum
Ester Gum appears in 1,307 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
Ester Gum appears in 1,307 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.
- 1,307
- catalogued products
- #556
- usage rank of 247,206
- 264
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
78.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Ester Gum as the trigger. Open records such as 10 fl oz juice drink - strawberry kiwi; 100% Juice; 100% Juice Cranberry Watermelon and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 64.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 73% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
78.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1307 of 1307 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.
Ester Gum: top-decile catalog footprint (#556 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #556
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,307 products listing it (mean slot 12.1). Ester Gum usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 Ester Gum
Across the 1,307 products on this site that list Ester 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. Sucralose shows up about 13.4x more often with Ester Gum than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Ester Gum products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 472 | 36.1% | 2.7% |
| Red 40 | 420 | 32.1% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 341 | 26.1% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 270 | 20.7% | 4.8% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 204 | 15.6% | 1.8% |
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 Ester Gum
Products Containing Ester Gum
16 busy labels from the 1,307 indexed products that list Ester Gum:
High-volume peers for Ester Gum beside “Peppers”
Top-decile company for Ester Gum: 1,307 listings averaging 64.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Peppers · Crushed Tomatoes · Organic Flax Seeds.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Ester Gum page
1,307 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Ester Gum are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Ester Gum before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Ester Gum
How should I read safety signals when Ester Gum sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
78.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Ester Gum is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Ester Gum? ▼
Ester Gum ranks in the top decile by product count (#556 of 247,206), appearing in 1,307 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Ester Gum so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Ester Gum appears in 1,307 products (#556 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Ester 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.