Xanthan Gums
Xanthan Gums appears in 23 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 Gums appears in 23 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.
- 23
- catalogued products
- #8,512
- usage rank of 247,206
- 11
- named brands represented
- 69%
- 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: 6 of 23 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare Assorted swirled ice squeeze-up tubes frozen dessert, cotton candy, orange dream, cherry melon; Cravin cajun hot sauce; Creamy Horseradish Seafood Dip In Collectable Glass Dipping Dish to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 50–100 score range to Xanthan Gums itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Dairies supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
6 of 23 linked records have some flagged component
All 23 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 50–100 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.
High-volume listing for Xanthan Gums - usage rank #8,512
- Usage rank
- #8,512
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 274 others that also appear in exactly 23 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 69%
- Mean relative depth 69% across 23 parsed labels, slot 14.7 on average. Xanthan Gums tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
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 Gums
Products Containing Xanthan Gums
16 busy labels from the 23 indexed products that list Xanthan Gums:
High-volume peers for Xanthan Gums
High-volume peers for Xanthan Gums: 23 products, mean screening score 90.9/100. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Xanthan Gums page
Start from Xanthan Gums's 23 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Xanthan Gums to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Xanthan Gums — common follow-ups
Does Xanthan 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 Xanthan Gums. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Xanthan Gums? ▼
Xanthan Gums ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,512 of 247,206), appearing in 23 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Xanthan Gums so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Xanthan Gums appears in 23 products (#8,512 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Xanthan 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.