Gomme De Guar

Gomme De Guar appears in 16 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

Gomme De Guar appears in 16 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.

16
catalogued products
#10,944
usage rank of 247,206
12
named brands represented
82%
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 Gomme De Guar - usage rank #10,944

Usage rank
#10,944
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 504 others that also appear in exactly 16 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
82%
Mean relative depth 82% across 16 parsed labels, slot 30.6 on average. Gomme De Guar tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.

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

Use prevalence before concern

Only 18.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Gomme De Guar spans 12 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Blueberry-Strawberry Flavour; Candy Bar; Chocolate milk mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 90.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

12 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 15 of 15 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 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 Gomme De Guar

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 050100150 012345 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Gomme De Guar
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for Gomme De Guar: 16 listings averaging 90.6/100.

Similar mean product score

Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.

Using the Gomme De Guar evidence

Use the 16-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Check the listed products containing Gomme De Guar before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
  • Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. 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.

Questions readers ask about Gomme De Guar

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Gomme De Guar?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Gomme De Guar, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#10,944 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Gomme De Guar?

Gomme De Guar ranks in the top decile by product count (#10,944 of 247,206), appearing in 16 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Gomme De Guar so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Gomme De Guar appears in 16 products (#10,944 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gomme De Guar). 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.