Guar Gum in Dog Food: Which Recipes List It

Guar Gum shows up across the Dog Food Library, a compiled set of manufacturer-published details for 958 dog foods sold in the United States. This page collects the facts as the manufacturers themselves state them: how many recipes list guar gum, where it typically sits in the ingredient order, and which specific products carry it, with links to check any food's full spec sheet directly.

What Guar Gum Is on a Label

Guar gum is a thickener made from the ground seed of the guar plant. It is listed by name, most often in wet or semi-moist recipes where it is used to set texture.

How Many of the 958 Foods List Guar Gum

84 of the 958 foods in the Dog Food Library list guar gum in their ingredient panel, as compiled from each manufacturer's own product page. Of those 84 foods, 0 list guar gum among the first five ingredients on the label, and the remaining 84 list it later in the panel. Ingredient order on these labels follows pre-cooking weight, so a fresh or wet ingredient can rank higher than a dried one that contributes more to the finished recipe.

Foods That List Guar Gum

The Dog Food Library lists 84 foods with guar gum on the label. Below are 25 of them, shown as brand and recipe name and linked to that food's full spec sheet.

• Acana: Premium Pate Beef Recipe All Life Stages Wet
• Acana: Premium Pate Poultry Recipe All Life Stages Wet
• Addiction Pet Foods: Wild Islands Highland Beef Lamb Recipe All Life Stages Wet Canned
• Addiction Pet Foods: Wild Islands Island Chicken Turkey Recipe All Life Stages Wet Canned
• Addiction Pet Foods: Wild Islands New Zealand Venison Recipe All Life Stages Wet Canned
• Beneful: Incredibites Loaf With Real Beef Tomatoes Carrots Spinach Adult Wet
• Beneful: Incredibites Loaf With Real Chicken Tomatoes Carrots Spinach Adult Wet
• Beneful: Incredibites Loaf With Real Salmon Tomatoes Carrots Spinach Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Basics Grain Free Adult Duck Potato Canned Recipe Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Basics Grain Free Adult Lamb Potato Canned Recipe Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Basics Grain Free Adult Small Breed Lamb Potato Canned Recipe Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Basics Grain Free Adult Small Breed Turkey Potato Recipe Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Basics Grain Free Senior Turkey Potato Recipe Senior Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Basics Grain Free Turkey Potato Recipe Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Basics Grain Free Whitefish Potato Recipe Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Freedom Adult Grain Free Beef Canned Recipe Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Freedom Adult Grain Free Lamb Canned Recipe Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Freedom Grain Free Chicken Dinner Recipe Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Freedom Grain Free Puppy Chicken Dinner Canned Recipe Puppy Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Freedom Grain Free Small Breed Chicken Recipe Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Freedom Senior Grain Free Chicken Canned Recipe Senior Wet
• Blue Buffalo: Homestyle Recipe Adult Chicken Dinner Adult Wet
• Blue Buffalo: True Solutions Total Support Chicken Recipe Adult Wet
• Hill's Prescription Diet: K/D Beef Vegetable Stew Adult Wet
• Hill's Prescription Diet: K/D Chicken Vegetable Stew Adult Wet

How to Check a Specific Food

To look up whether a particular food lists guar gum, and where, open its entry on the Dog Food Library by brand or put it side by side with another food using the dog food comparison tool. Both pages pull from the same manufacturer-sourced data used to build this page.

For between-meal variety that keeps the main recipe unchanged, browse single ingredient freeze dried dog treats from Sniff and Shift.

Data from maker product pages as compiled for the Dog Food Library; counts as of September 23, 2026.

Questions about guar gum in dog food

How many of the 958 dog foods in the library list guar gum?

84 of the 958 foods in the Dog Food Library list guar gum on their ingredient panel, as compiled from manufacturer product pages.

Where does guar gum usually appear in the ingredient order?

Of the 84 foods that list guar gum, 0 show it among the first five ingredients and 84 show it later in the list, based on each manufacturer's own published order.

Which brands include guar gum in the Dog Food Library?

Examples in the Dog Food Library include Acana, Addiction Pet Foods, and Beneful, among the 84 foods that list guar gum; see the full list on this page.