Guar
Guar appears in 681 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
Guar appears in 681 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.
- 681
- catalogued products
- #848
- usage rank of 247,206
- 160
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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.
How to use this page
Audit the co-occurring flags first
55.8% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Guar as the trigger. Open records such as 16 Split Top Dinner Rolls; 4 pk Assorted Yeast Raised Donuts; 5 Cheese Breadsticks and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 86.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 69% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
55.8% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 666 of 674 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.
High-volume listing for Guar - usage rank #848
- Usage rank
- #848
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Averaged label depth puts Guar in the lower half of the list (69% of list length, mean slot 24.5). 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Guar
Across the 681 products on this site that list Guar, 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. Carrageenan shows up about 6.6x more often with Guar than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Guar products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 203 | 29.8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 121 | 17.8% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 99 | 14.5% | 1.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 83 | 12.2% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 80 | 11.7% | 4.8% |
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 Guar
Products Containing Guar
16 busy labels from the 681 indexed products that list Guar:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Allulose”)
Guar sits among other busy catalog rows (681 products, mean score 86/100). Nearest count peers include “Allulose”, “Ferrous Gluconate”, “Chocolate Processed With Alkali”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Guar evidence
Start from Guar's 681 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Guar to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Guar next to “Ferrous Gluconate” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Guar
How should I read safety signals when Guar sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
55.8% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Guar is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Guar? ▼
Guar ranks in the top decile by product count (#848 of 247,206), appearing in 681 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Guar so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Guar appears in 681 products (#848 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (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.