Karaya Gum
Karaya Gum appears in 241 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
Karaya Gum appears in 241 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.
- 241
- catalogued products
- #1,724
- usage rank of 247,206
- 44
- named brands represented
- 85%
- 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
59.3% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Karaya Gum as the trigger. Open records such as 7-11 powdered sugar mini donuts; Apple Caramel Cake Mix; Asorted donut holes and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 83.7/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 85% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
59.3% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 241 of 241 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.
Karaya Gum: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,724 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,724
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 241 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 85%
- Averaged label depth puts Karaya Gum near the end of the captured list (85% of list length, mean slot 39.8). 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 Karaya Gum
Across the 241 products on this site that list Karaya Gum, 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. Titanium Dioxide shows up about 16.4x more often with Karaya Gum than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Karaya Gum products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titanium Dioxide | 83 | 34.4% | 2.1% |
| Red 40 | 41 | 17% | 5.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 34 | 14.1% | 5.7% |
| Blue 1 | 18 | 7.5% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 6 | 16 | 6.6% | 3.4% |
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 Karaya Gum
Products Containing Karaya Gum
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 241 indexed products containing Karaya Gum:
High-volume peers for Karaya Gum beside “Chick Peas”
High-volume peers for Karaya Gum: 241 products, mean screening score 83.7/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Chick Peas; Chocolate Chunks; Organic Long Grain Rice. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Karaya Gum record
Start from Karaya Gum's 241 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Karaya Gum before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Karaya Gum
How should I read safety signals when Karaya Gum sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
59.3% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Karaya Gum is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Karaya Gum? ▼
Karaya Gum ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,724 of 247,206), appearing in 241 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Karaya Gum so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Karaya Gum appears in 241 products (#1,724 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Karaya 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.