Guar Gums
Guar Gums appears in 780 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 Gums appears in 780 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.
- 780
- catalogued products
- #775
- usage rank of 247,206
- 231
- named brands represented
- 58%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 238 of 780 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 1/3 less fat cream cheese; 1/3 less fat than cream cheese; All American Sushi Roll to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Guar Gums itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
238 of 780 linked records have some flagged component
All 780 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 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 Gums sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#775 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #775
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 780 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 58%
- Averaged label depth puts Guar Gums in the lower half of the list (58% of list length, mean slot 17.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 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 Gums
Across the 780 products on this site that list Guar Gums, 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 2.8x more often with Guar Gums than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Guar Gums products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 99 | 12.7% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 55 | 7.1% | 5.7% |
| Red 40 | 45 | 5.8% | 5.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 41 | 5.3% | 2.4% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 30 | 3.8% | 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 Gums
Products Containing Guar Gums
16 busy labels from the 780 indexed products that list Guar Gums:
Guar Gums vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Guar Gums: 780 products, mean screening score 93.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Cranberry Juice Concentrate · Seasoning Blend · Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Nonfat Milk. 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
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Guar Gums page
780 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Guar Gums are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Guar Gums to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Guar Gums 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 Gums. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Guar Gums? ▼
Guar Gums ranks in the top decile by product count (#775 of 247,206), appearing in 780 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Guar Gums so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Guar Gums appears in 780 products (#775 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Guar Gums). 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.