Gum Acacia
Gum Acacia appears in 3,488 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
Gum Acacia appears in 3,488 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.
- 3,488
- catalogued products
- #273
- usage rank of 247,206
- 696
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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.
Reading this ingredient record
Audit the co-occurring flags first
66.5% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Gum Acacia as the trigger. Open records such as 1/2 Marble Grad Cake With Red Borders; 100% fruit and vegetable juice; 100% Plant Protein and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 58.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 69% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
66.5% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 3488 of 3488 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.
Gum Acacia sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#273 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #273
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Averaged label depth puts Gum Acacia in the lower half of the list (69% of list length, mean slot 16.7). 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 Gum Acacia
Across the 3,488 products on this site that list Gum Acacia, 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. Red 40 shows up about 7.2x more often with Gum Acacia than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Gum Acacia products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 1,364 | 39.1% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,231 | 35.3% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 1,091 | 31.3% | 3.4% |
| Blue 1 | 1,048 | 30% | 4.2% |
| Blue 2 | 744 | 21.3% | 0.9% |
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 Gum Acacia
Products Containing Gum Acacia
High-volume slice (16 of 3,488) for products naming Gum Acacia:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Red Pepper”)
Top-decile company for Gum Acacia: 3,488 listings averaging 58/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Red Pepper · Chicken Broth · Red Bell Pepper.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Gum Acacia evidence
Use the 3,488-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Gum Acacia and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Gum Acacia next to “Chicken Broth” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Gum Acacia — common follow-ups
How should I read safety signals when Gum Acacia sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
66.5% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Gum Acacia is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Gum Acacia? ▼
Gum Acacia ranks in the top decile by product count (#273 of 247,206), appearing in 3,488 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Gum Acacia so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Gum Acacia appears in 3,488 products (#273 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gum Acacia). 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.