Locust Bean Gums
Locust Bean Gums appears in 7 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
Locust Bean Gums appears in 7 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.
- 7
- catalogued products
- #19,546
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2
- named brands represented
- 67%
- 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
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 2 of 7 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Buffalo-Style Chicken Dip; Soft Spreadable Cheese; Organic citrus pop-up to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 95–100 score range to Locust Bean Gums itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Desserts supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
2 of 7 linked records have some flagged component
All 7 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 95–100 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.
Locust Bean Gums sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#19,546 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #19,546
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,185 others that also appear in exactly 7 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 67%
- Averaged label depth puts Locust Bean Gums in the lower half of the list (67% of list length, mean slot 12.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 7 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 Locust Bean Gums
Products Containing Locust Bean Gums
A sample of 7 high-volume listings among the 7 indexed products containing Locust Bean Gums:
High-volume peers for Locust Bean Gums
Top-decile company for Locust Bean Gums: 7 listings averaging 98.6/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Locust Bean Gums page
7 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Locust Bean Gums are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Locust Bean Gums to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Locust Bean Gums 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 Locust Bean Gums. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Locust Bean Gums? ▼
Locust Bean Gums ranks in the top decile by product count (#19,546 of 247,206), appearing in 7 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Locust Bean Gums so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Locust Bean Gums appears in 7 products (#19,546 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Locust Bean Gums). 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.