Xanthan gum

Where it is and isn’t permitted

Status of Xanthan gum by jurisdiction. Every jurisdiction this site covers is listed, including those where the substance does not appear.
Jurisdiction	Status	Scope and limits	Citation
United StatesFood and Drug Administration	Permitted, with conditions		21 CFR 172.695retrieved 2026-09-07
Codex AlimentariusCodex Alimentarius Commission / JECFA	Permitted, with conditions	26 food categories highest permitted level 10,000 mg/kg Show every food category 01.1.2 Other Fluid Milk (plain) — GMP 01.2.1.1 Fermented milks (plain), not heat-treated after fermentation — GMP 01.2.1.2 Fermented milks (plain), heat-treated after fermentation — GMP 01.2.2 Renneted milk (plain) — GMP 01.4.1 Pasteurized cream (plain) — GMP 01.4.2 Sterilized and UHT creams, whipping and whipped creams, and reduced fat creams (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, — GMP 06.4.1 Fresh pastas and noodles and like products — GMP 06.4.2 Dried pastas and noodles and like products — GMP 08.1.1 Fresh meat, poultry and game, whole pieces or cuts — GMP 08.1.2 Fresh meat, poultry and game, comminuted — GMP 09.2.1 Frozen fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 09.2.2 Frozen battered fish, fish fillets and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 09.2.3 Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 09.2.4.1 Cooked fish and fish products — GMP 09.2.4.3 Fried fish and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 09.2.5 Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms — GMP 10.2.1 Liquid egg products — GMP 10.2.2 Frozen egg products — GMP 11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings) — GMP 12.1.2 Salt substitutes — GMP 13.1.3 Formulae for special medical purposes for infants — 1,000 mg/kg 13.2 Complementary foods for infants and young children — 10,000 mg/kg 14.1.2 Fruit and vegetable juices — GMP 14.1.3 Fruit and vegetable nectars — GMP 14.1.5 Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa — GMP	CXS 192-1995 Table Three, INS 415and 26 further provisionsretrieved 2026-09-07

What it is made from

Produced by fermenting a sugar feedstock — commonly glucose from maize, but also from wheat, soy or dairy substrates — with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris, then precipitating the gum with alcohol and drying it. The carbohydrate source is not usually declared, which matters to people avoiding specific allergens.

Vegan

Vegetarian

CAS registry number

11138-66-2

Values set by assessing bodies. A body that has not set a value is not listed here.
Type	Value	Population	Assessed by	Opinion
ADI	1	consumers	EFSA FAF	2023

Values set by assessing bodies. A body that has not set a value is not listed here.

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Value

Population

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ADI

consumers

EFSA FAF

2023

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