Guar Gu
Guar Gu appears in 10 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 Gu appears in 10 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.
- 10
- catalogued products
- #15,180
- usage rank of 247,206
- 8
- named brands represented
- 98%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2 of 10 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Chocolate ice cream with swirls of chocolate; Imported Queen Stuffed With Minced Pimiento; Mango Premium Ice Cream in Sweet Rice Dough to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 25–100 score range to Guar Gu itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Desserts supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2 of 10 linked records have some flagged component
All 10 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 25–100 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.
High-volume listing for Guar Gu - usage rank #15,180
- Usage rank
- #15,180
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,209 others that also appear in exactly 10 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 98%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 10 products listing it (mean slot 15.1). Guar Gu usually falls near the end of the captured 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.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 10 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 Gu
Products Containing Guar Gu
A sample of 10 high-volume listings among the 10 indexed products containing Guar Gu:
Guar Gu vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Guar Gu sits among other busy catalog rows (10 products, mean score 92/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Gu evidence
Start from Guar Gu's 10 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Guar Gu and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Guar Gu carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Guar Gu. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Guar Gu? ▼
Guar Gu ranks in the top decile by product count (#15,180 of 247,206), appearing in 10 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Guar Gu so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Guar Gu appears in 10 products (#15,180 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Guar Gu). 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.