Soybean hemicellulose (E426): What the Sources Found

Soybean hemicellulose is the thickener the food industry lists as E426. In our table it is no risk identified: it takes no points off a product's score for a child.

In short

No risk identified. No regulator finding we score, so a product keeps all 33 additive points.
No child flag. Nothing below is written about children specifically, so the class is the same at every age.
1 citation from EFSA, each one below.

What Soybean hemicellulose does to a score

A packaged food starts with 33 points for what is in its ingredient list. Soybean hemicellulose 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.

What the sources found

Every classification in our table comes from the citations below, and nothing else. They are quoted as the source wrote them.

EFSA 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4721 (PMC7010024)
Re-evaluation of soybean hemicellulose (E 426): not evaluated by JECFA and no ADI specified; the Panel concluded it is very unlikely that there is a safety concern from the current use of E 426 as a food additive and that there is no need for a numerical ADI. Authorised in the EU under Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008.

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.