Locust bean gum is the thickener the food industry lists as E410. In our table it is no risk identified: it takes no points off a product's score.
- The key finding, from EFSA: No need for a numerical ADI for locust bean gum (E 410) and no safety concern for the general population at the refined exposure assessment for its reported uses (PMC7010100 (Re-evaluation of locust bean gum (E 410) as a food additive, EFSA 2017))
- No child flag. The class, and the points it costs, are the same for a child of any age.
- Where you meet it. It turns up in 36 of the 10,000 packaged foods scanned most on Open Food Facts, most often in cheese, ice cream and yogurts. Nine in ten of those foods are sold in Europe (counted 26 Sep 2026).
- 2 citations from EFSA, each one below.
What Locust bean gum does to a score
A packaged food's additive subscore starts at 100 and loses points for each additive on the label; that subscore is a third of the final score. Locust bean gum takes no points off a product's score. Scan the pack in Sito and the score you get is the one for your own child's age, with this additive named in the reasons. How we score has the whole method.
See what is in your own cupboard
Scan a packaged food and Sito names the additives in it, then scores the product out of 100 for your child's age.
What the sources found
Every classification in our table comes from the citations below, and nothing else. Each finding is our one-line summary of what the source concluded, with the source and reference beside it.
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EFSA
PMC7010100 (Re-evaluation of locust bean gum (E 410) as a food additive, EFSA 2017)
No need for a numerical ADI for locust bean gum (E 410) and no safety concern for the general population at the refined exposure assessment for its reported uses. -
EFSA
10.2903/j.efsa.2023.7775 (PMC9909383)
Re-evaluation of E 410 in foods for infants below 16 weeks of age and follow-up for all population groups.
Why this class
Clean current EFSA and FDA status. These rows exist so that an unfamiliar additive is never treated as a bad one: a missing row costs a product nothing, and a clean row says so with citations.
Our confidence in this row's classification is high. Medium or low does not mean the evidence is weak; it means something about the row is still being pinned down, usually a regulatory status confirmed from one source rather than two.
Questions parents ask
Is Locust bean gum (E410) safe for kids?
No risk identified. No regulator finding we score, so a product keeps its full additive subscore in Sito. The current status is clean: No need for a numerical ADI for locust bean gum (E 410) and no safety concern for the general population at the refined exposure assessment for its reported uses (EFSA, PMC7010100 (Re-evaluation of locust bean gum (E 410) as a food additive, EFSA 2017)).
What is E410?
E410 is the E number for Locust bean gum, a thickener. Open Food Facts tags it en:e410.
Next to it on the label
The E numbers either side of E410 in our table, then the closest thickeners by number.
- Propane-1,2-diol alginate (E405), no risk identified
- Agar (E406), no risk identified
- Carrageenan (E407), high risk, flagged for young children
- Guar gum (E412), no risk identified
- Tragacanth (E413), no risk identified
- Acacia gum (E414), no risk identified