Gellan Gum
Gellan Gum carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 2,825 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
Gellan Gum appears in 2,825 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.
- 2,825
- catalogued products
- #321
- usage rank of 247,206
- 550
- named brands represented
- 70%
- 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.
Gellan Gum sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#321 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #321
- 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
- 70%
- Averaged label depth puts Gellan Gum in the lower half of the list (70% of list length, mean slot 12.8). 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 710 of 2825 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1% organic lowfat milk; 100 Plus Pro; 10” Chocolate Cake Filled with Chocolate Mousse to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Gellan Gum itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Plant-based foods and beverages supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
710 of 2,825 linked records have some flagged component
All 2822 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Gellan Gum
Across the 2,825 products on this site that list Gellan 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 3.6x more often with Gellan Gum than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Gellan Gum products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 277 | 9.8% | 2.7% |
| Carrageenan | 263 | 9.3% | 4.5% |
| Monk fruit extract | 124 | 4.4% | 0.5% |
| Red 40 | 121 | 4.3% | 5.4% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 111 | 3.9% | 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.
Function
STABILIZER OR THICKENER
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 Gellan Gum
Products Containing Gellan Gum
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 2,825 indexed products containing Gellan Gum:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Potassium Benzoate”)
High-volume peers for Gellan Gum: 2,825 products, mean screening score 92.8/100. Nearest count peers include “Potassium Benzoate”, “Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour”, “Chicken”. 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.
Next steps from the Gellan Gum page
Start from Gellan Gum's 2,825 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Gellan Gum before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare Gellan Gum with a peer such as “Potassium Benzoate” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Gellan Gum — common follow-ups
Does Gellan 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. Gellan Gum itself carries and FDA SAFFA status "Approved" where the source record supplies them. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Gellan Gum? ▼
Gellan Gum ranks in the top decile by product count (#321 of 247,206), appearing in 2,825 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does Gellan Gum do in food? ▼
Gellan Gum is recorded as a stabilizer or thickener in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gellan 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.