Glucomannan
Glucomannan appears in 14 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
Glucomannan appears in 14 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.
- 14
- catalogued products
- #11,996
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 43%
- 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.
Glucomannan sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#11,996 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #11,996
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 643 others that also appear in exactly 14 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 43%
- Averaged label depth puts Glucomannan in the upper half of the list (43% of list length, mean slot 5.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Glucomannan spans 4 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with A-SHA Boba Milk Tea; Daily Fix; Hello Kitty Boba Milk Tea Taro when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
4 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 10 of 14 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 14 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 Glucomannan
Products Containing Glucomannan
A sample of 14 high-volume listings among the 14 indexed products containing Glucomannan:
Glucomannan vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Glucomannan: 14 products, mean screening score 95.7/100. 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.
Using the Glucomannan evidence
Start from Glucomannan's 14 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Glucomannan before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Glucomannan
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Glucomannan? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Glucomannan, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#11,996 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Glucomannan? ▼
Glucomannan ranks in the top decile by product count (#11,996 of 247,206), appearing in 14 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Glucomannan so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Glucomannan appears in 14 products (#11,996 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Glucomannan). 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.