Vegetable Gums
Vegetable Gums appears in 295 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
Vegetable Gums appears in 295 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.
- 295
- catalogued products
- #1,503
- usage rank of 247,206
- 65
- named brands represented
- 56%
- 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
Audit the co-occurring flags first
64.4% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Vegetable Gums as the trigger. Open records such as Armour, lunchmakers, pizza, pepperoni; ARTISAN STYLE FLATBREAD SOURDOUGH; Big train spiced chai tea latte mix and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 71.0/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 56% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
64.4% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 292 of 295 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.
Vegetable Gums sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#1,503 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,503
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1 other that also appear in exactly 295 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 56%
- Averaged label depth puts Vegetable Gums in the lower half of the list (56% of list length, mean slot 14.3). 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 Vegetable Gums
Across the 295 products on this site that list Vegetable Gums, 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. Red 40 shows up about 5.1x more often with Vegetable Gums than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Vegetable Gums products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 81 | 27.5% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 67 | 22.7% | 4.2% |
| Carrageenan | 56 | 19% | 4.5% |
| Red 3 | 53 | 18% | 1.1% |
| Yellow 5 | 50 | 16.9% | 4.8% |
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 Vegetable Gums
Products Containing Vegetable Gums
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 295 indexed products containing Vegetable Gums:
High-volume peers for Vegetable Gums beside “Turmeric Color”
Top-decile company for Vegetable Gums: 295 listings averaging 71/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Turmeric Color · Lobster · Sparkling Water.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Using the Vegetable Gums evidence
Use the 295-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Vegetable Gums and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Vegetable Gums
How should I read safety signals when Vegetable Gums sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
64.4% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Vegetable Gums is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Vegetable Gums? ▼
Vegetable Gums ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,503 of 247,206), appearing in 295 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Vegetable Gums so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Vegetable Gums appears in 295 products (#1,503 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Vegetable 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.