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 248,027
- 3,749
- 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.
How to use this page
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.
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.
Where Guar Gum sits among catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #33
- of 248,027 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 25,606 products listing it (mean slot 19.2). Guar Gum usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 248,027 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
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, 2026-08-02.
Products Containing Guar Gum
A sample of 16 of the 25,590 indexed products containing Guar Gum, with each product's overall safety score.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Guar Gum safe to eat? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Guar Gum, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict for it. The page reports catalog prevalence and label position instead.
What products contain Guar Gum? ▼
Guar Gum is found in 25,590 products in our database, spanning various food categories and brands.
What does Guar Gum do in food? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Guar Gum. Its product footprint is shown here without guessing why manufacturers use it.
Citation notes
Regulatory status from FDA SAFFA; safety ratings from CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence from Open Food Facts. See our methodology. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFoodSafe.Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Ingredient figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
