Gummi Arabicum
Gummi Arabicum appears in 11 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
Gummi Arabicum appears in 11 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.
- 11
- catalogued products
- #14,190
- usage rank of 247,206
- 10
- named brands represented
- 63%
- 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.
Gummi Arabicum: top-decile catalog footprint (#14,190 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #14,190
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 989 others that also appear in exactly 11 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 63%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 11 products listing it (mean slot 12.6). Gummi Arabicum 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. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Gummi Arabicum spans 10 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Crispy Rye Snack; Erdnüsse pikant gewürzt; Funky Cola Flavour Kaugummi when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
10 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 11 of 11 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 11 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 Gummi Arabicum
Products Containing Gummi Arabicum
11 busy labels from the 11 indexed products that list Gummi Arabicum:
High-volume peers for Gummi Arabicum
Gummi Arabicum sits among other busy catalog rows (11 products, mean score 97.3/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Gummi Arabicum record
11 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Gummi Arabicum are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Gummi Arabicum and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Open a peer record
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Gummi Arabicum
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Gummi Arabicum? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Gummi Arabicum, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#14,190 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Gummi Arabicum? ▼
Gummi Arabicum ranks in the top decile by product count (#14,190 of 247,206), appearing in 11 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Gummi Arabicum so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Gummi Arabicum appears in 11 products (#14,190 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Gummi Arabicum). 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.