Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum
Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum appears in 3 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 & Locust Bean Gum appears in 3 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.
- 3
- catalogued products
- #35,091
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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: 1 of 3 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Bean & Cheese Burrito; Local New England Ice Cream, Midnight Chocolate; Chocolate chip cookie dough vanilla with cookie dough pieces and chocolate chunks ice cream, chocolate chip cookie dough to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 75–100 score range to Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Desserts supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
1 of 3 linked records have some flagged component
All 3 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 75–100 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.
Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum ranks above 85.8% of catalogued ingredients
- Usage rank
- #35,091
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11,093 others that also appear in exactly 3 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 3 products listing it (mean slot 18.7). Guar Gum & Locust Bean 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.
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.
Products Containing Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum
Every indexed product currently listing Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum (3 total):
Ingredients with similar product-count or score profiles
Use the lists below to place Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum against similar footprints (3 products).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum page
Use the 3-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum — common follow-ups
Does Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum 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 Gum & Locust Bean Gum. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Where does Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum show up across the catalog? ▼
Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum sits above the median for catalog prevalence (3 products, #35,091 of 247,206) across 2 named brands. Category mix varies — use the linked records rather than treating any single shelf as representative.
Why is Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The current source record does not specify a technical effect for Guar Gum & Locust Bean Gum. Its in the lower half of the list and product examples are shown without guessing why manufacturers include it.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Guar Gum & Locust Bean 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.