Gum Base
Gum Base appears in 1,214 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 Base appears in 1,214 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.
- 1,214
- catalogued products
- #592
- usage rank of 247,206
- 161
- named brands represented
- 14%
- 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
88.1% 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 Base as the trigger. Open records such as All Natural Bubble Gum; Aqua Mint Gum; Arctic Chill Sugar Free Gum, Arctic Chill and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 41.3/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 14% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
88.1% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 1213 of 1214 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.
High-volume listing for Gum Base - usage rank #592
- Usage rank
- #592
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 14%
- Averaged label depth puts Gum Base near the top of the captured list (14% of list length, mean slot 3.2). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
What else is usually in the same product as Gum Base
Across the 1,214 products on this site that list Gum Base, 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. BHT shows up about 62.8x more often with Gum Base than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Gum Base products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHT | 839 | 69.1% | 1.1% |
| Aspartame | 589 | 48.5% | 0.9% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 559 | 46% | 1.8% |
| Blue 1 | 444 | 36.6% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 409 | 33.7% | 5.4% |
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 Gum Base
Products Containing Gum Base
High-volume slice (16 of 1,214) for products naming Gum Base:
Gum Base vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Gum Base: 1,214 listings averaging 41.3/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Soy Oil; Microcrystalline Cellulose; Shellac.
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 Base evidence
Use the 1,214-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Gum Base before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Compare Gum Base with a peer such as “Soy Oil” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Gum Base
How should I read safety signals when Gum Base sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
88.1% 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 Base is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Gum Base? ▼
Gum Base ranks in the top decile by product count (#592 of 247,206), appearing in 1,214 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Gum Base so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Gum Base appears in 1,214 products (#592 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gum Base). 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.