Tara gum (E417): What the Sources Found

Tara gum is the thickener the food industry lists as E417. 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.
2 citations from EFSA, FDA, each one below.

What Tara gum does to a score

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

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 PMC7009841 - Re-evaluation of tara gum (E 417) as a food additive
SCF and JECFA both allocated ADI 'not specified'; EFSA concluded there is no need for a numerical ADI for tara gum (E 417) and no safety concern for the general population at the reported uses and use levels.
FDA constituent update, 'FDA Update on the Post-market Assessment of Tara Flour'; FDA post-market not-GRAS determination list entry 'taraflour'
FDA determined there are insufficient data and no history of safe use to consider tara FLOUR GRAS, and no food additive regulation authorises it - making it an unapproved food additive. This determination concerns tara flour, not tara gum (E 417).

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.