Xanthan And Guar Gums
Xanthan And Guar Gums appears in 73 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
Xanthan And Guar Gums appears in 73 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.
- 73
- catalogued products
- #3,864
- usage rank of 247,206
- 22
- 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.
High-volume listing for Xanthan And Guar Gums - usage rank #3,864
- Usage rank
- #3,864
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 32 others that also appear in exactly 73 products, listed in more products than 98.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 85%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 73 products listing it (mean slot 20.4). Xanthan And Guar Gums usually falls near the end of the captured 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 13.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Xanthan And Guar Gums spans 22 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Apple cinnamon with oatmeal granola topping premium muffin mix, apple cinnamon; bagels; Bagels Everything when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
22 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 73 of 73 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Xanthan And Guar Gums
Across the 73 products on this site that list Xanthan And Guar 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. Polysorbate 60 shows up about 12.7x more often with Xanthan And Guar Gums than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Xanthan And Guar Gums products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polysorbate 60 | 13 | 17.8% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 8 | 11% | 5.7% |
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 Xanthan And Guar Gums
Products Containing Xanthan And Guar Gums
High-volume slice (16 of 73) for products naming Xanthan And Guar Gums:
High-volume peers for Xanthan And Guar Gums beside “Added To Retain Freshness”
Top-decile company for Xanthan And Guar Gums: 73 listings averaging 98.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added To Retain Freshness; Anti Caking Agent; Chiles.
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.
Next steps from the Xanthan And Guar Gums page
Start from Xanthan And Guar Gums's 73 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Xanthan And Guar Gums and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Compare Xanthan And Guar Gums with a peer such as “Added To Retain Freshness” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Xanthan And Guar Gums? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Xanthan And Guar Gums, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,864 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Xanthan And Guar Gums? ▼
Xanthan And Guar Gums ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,864 of 247,206), appearing in 73 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Xanthan And Guar Gums so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Xanthan And Guar Gums appears in 73 products (#3,864 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Xanthan And Guar 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.