Food Additive Details
Guar gum (412)
Synonym(s)
Functional Classes
Emulsifier
Stabilizer
Thickener
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GSFA Provisions for Guar gum
Number
Food Category
Max Level
Notes
01.4.1
Pasteurized cream (plain)
GMP
09.2.1
Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
GMP
09.2.5
Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
GMP
01.1.2
Other fluid milk (plain)
GMP
09.2.4.3
Fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
GMP
14.1.5
Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa
GMP
09.2.2
Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
GMP
06.4.1
Fresh pastas and noodles and like products
GMP
01.2.1.2
Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation
GMP
01.2.1.1
Fermented milks (plain), not heat-treated after fermentation
GMP
09.2.4.1
Cooked fish and fish products
GMP
06.4.2
Dried pastas and noodles and like products
GMP
11.4
Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings)
GMP
08.1.2
Fresh meat, poultry, and game, comminuted
GMP
01.4.2
Sterilized and UHT creams, whipping and whipped creams, and reduced fat creams (plain)
GMP
09.2.3
Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
GMP
10.2.2
Frozen egg products
GMP
01.2.2
Renneted milk (plain)
GMP
04.2.2.7
Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed products, excluding fermented soybean products of food categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3
GMP
10.2.1
Liquid egg products
GMP
12.1.2
Salt Substitutes
GMP
13.2
Complementary foods for infants and young children
2,000 mg/kg
13.1.3
Formulae for special medical purposes for infants
1,000 mg/kg
13.1.2
Follow-up formulae
1,000 mg/kg
13.1.1
Infant formulae
1,000 mg/kg
Note: Unless otherwise specified, food additive provisions apply to the food category indicated (e.g. Dairy), as well as to all subcategories of that category (e.g. Cheese, Ripened Cheese, etc.).
GSFA Table 3 Provisions
Guar gum is a food additive that is included in Table 3 , and as such may be used in the following foods under the conditions of good manufacturing practices (GMP) as outlined in the Preamble of the Codex GSFA. Although not listed below, Guar gum could also be used in heat-treated butter milk of food category 01.1.1 and spices of food category 12.2.1. Note that food categories listed in the Annex to Table 3 were excluded accordingly.
Guar gum is acceptable in foods conforming to the following commodity standards: (additive.commodityStandardsA).
Guar gum is a: (additive.functionsB) (additive.commodityStandardsB)
Number
Food Category
01.1.4
Flavoured fluid milk drinks
01.3
Condensed milk and analogues (plain)
01.4.3
Clotted cream (plain)
01.4.4
Cream analogues
01.5
Milk powder and cream powder and powder analogues (plain)
01.6.1
Unripened cheese
01.6.2
Ripened cheese
01.6.4
Processed cheese
01.6.5
Cheese analogues
01.7
Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt)
01.8.1
Liquid whey and whey products, excluding whey cheeses
02.2.2
Fat spreads, dairy fat spreads and blended spreads
02.3
Fat emulsions mainly of type oil-in-water, including mixed and/or flavoured products based on fat emulsions
02.4
Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7
03.0
Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet
04.1.2
Processed fruit
04.2.2.2
Dried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds
04.2.2.3
Vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds in vinegar, oil, brine, or soybean sauce
04.2.2.4
Canned or bottled (pasteurized) or retort pouch vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds
04.2.2.5
Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed purees and spreads (e.g., peanut butter)
04.2.2.6
Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables) other than food category 04.2.2.5
04.2.2.8
Cooked or fried vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), and seaweeds
05.0
Confectionery
06.3
Breakfast cereals, including rolled oats
06.4.3
Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products
06.5
Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding)
06.6
Batters (e.g. for breading or batters for fish or poultry)
06.7
Pre-cooked or processed rice products, including rice cakes (Oriental type only)
06.8
Soybean products (excluding soybean-based seasonings and condiments of food category 12.9)
07.0
Bakery wares
08.2
Processed meat, poultry, and game products in whole pieces or cuts
08.3
Processed comminuted meat, poultry, and game products
08.4
Edible casings (e.g. sausage casings)
09.3
Semi-preserved fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
09.4
Fully preserved, including canned or fermented fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms
10.2.3
Dried and/or heat coagulated egg products
10.3
Preserved eggs, including alkaline, salted, and canned eggs
10.4
Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard)
11.6
Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high-intensity sweeteners
12.2.2
Seasonings and condiments
12.3
Vinegars
12.4
Mustards
12.5
Soups and broths
12.6
Sauces and like products
12.7
Salads (e.g. macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich spreads excluding cocoa- and nut-based spreads of food categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3
12.8
Yeast and like products
12.9
Soybean-based seasonings and condiments
12.10
Protein products other than from soybeans
13.3
Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1)
13.4
Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction
13.5
Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories 13.1 - 13.4 and 13.6
13.6
Food supplements
14.1.4
Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," "energy," or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks
14.2.1
Beer and malt beverages
14.2.2
Cider and perry
14.2.4
Wines (other than grape)
14.2.5
Mead
14.2.6
Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol
14.2.7
Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low alcoholic refreshers)
15.0
Ready-to-eat savouries
16.0
Prepared foods
Note: Unless otherwise specified, food additive provisions apply to the food category indicated (e.g. Dairy), as well as to all subcategories of that category (e.g. Cheese, Ripened Cheese, etc.).