Guar Gum
Guar Gum appears in 25,590 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 Gum appears in 25,590 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.
- 25,590
- catalogued products
- #33
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,483
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
50.3% 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 Gum as the trigger. Open records such as 0% Milkfat Cottage Cheese small curd fat free; 0% Milkfat Fat Free Small Curd Cottage Cheese; 0% milkfat fat free small curd cottage cheese and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 89.1/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 67% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
50.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 25583 of 25586 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.
Guar Gum: top-decile catalog footprint (#33 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #33
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Mean relative depth 67% across 25,606 parsed labels, slot 19.2 on average. Guar Gum tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Gum
Across the 25,590 products on this site that list Guar 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. Carrageenan shows up about 7x more often with Guar Gum than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Guar Gum products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 8,085 | 31.6% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 3,020 | 11.8% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 2,526 | 9.9% | 1.3% |
| Red 40 | 1,967 | 7.7% | 5.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 1,875 | 7.3% | 1.4% |
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 Gum
Products Containing Guar Gum
High-volume slice (16 of 25,590) for products naming Guar Gum:
Guar Gum vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Guar Gum: 25,590 products, mean screening score 89.1/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Vegetable Oil; Color; Preservative. 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.
What to do with this Guar Gum record
25,590 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Guar Gum are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Guar Gum to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Place Guar Gum next to “Color” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Guar Gum — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Guar Gum sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
50.3% 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 Gum is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Guar Gum? ▼
Guar Gum ranks in the top decile by product count (#33 of 247,206), appearing in 25,590 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Guar Gum so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Guar Gum appears in 25,590 products (#33 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Guar 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.