Konjac Gum
Konjac Gum appears in 115 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
Konjac Gum appears in 115 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.
- 115
- catalogued products
- #2,845
- usage rank of 247,206
- 30
- named brands represented
- 74%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 30 of 115 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Apple cider donut holiday soft baked cookies; Brownie Bites; Brownies to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 20–100 score range to Konjac Gum itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Meals supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
30 of 115 linked records have some flagged component
All 115 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 20–100 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.
Konjac Gum: top-decile catalog footprint (#2,845 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #2,845
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 15 others that also appear in exactly 115 products, listed in more products than 98.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 74%
- Mean relative depth 74% across 115 parsed labels, slot 26.8 on average. Konjac Gum tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 Konjac Gum
Across the 115 products on this site that list Konjac 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. Sodium Nitrite shows up about 5.1x more often with Konjac Gum than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Konjac Gum products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sodium Nitrite | 14 | 12.2% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 14 | 12.2% | 1.1% |
| BHA | 13 | 11.3% | 0.7% |
| Carrageenan | 12 | 10.4% | 4.5% |
| Monk fruit extract | 12 | 10.4% | 0.5% |
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 Konjac Gum
Products Containing Konjac Gum
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 115 indexed products containing Konjac Gum:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Natural And Artificial Flavorings”)
Konjac Gum sits among other busy catalog rows (115 products, mean score 92.7/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Natural And Artificial Flavorings; Bamboo Fiber; Beef Hearts. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Konjac Gum evidence
Use the 115-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Konjac Gum before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Konjac Gum next to “Bamboo Fiber” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. 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 Konjac Gum
Does Konjac Gum 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 Konjac Gum. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Konjac Gum? ▼
Konjac Gum ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,845 of 247,206), appearing in 115 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Konjac Gum so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Konjac Gum appears in 115 products (#2,845 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Konjac 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.