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No it's not. It's a bespoke product for "salads": macaroni salad, egg salad, potato salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, etc. The water is there to lighten the texture. No one making mac salad or any of the others is counting calories. An example of a similar product is Heinz Salad Cream.
Mustard powder for texture? There's more "natural flavor" (probably MSG) than mustard powder in Miracle Whip. It's for flavor.
Mustard powder absolutely acts as an emulsifier here. The mucilage is a polysaccharide which helps suspend the oil in low egg systems like miracle whip, but admittedly the cornstarch is doing more here
There is no direct msg in miracle whip, nor does it contain things like yeast extract or hydrolyzed proteins for natural glutamates to avoid labeling. At least in the USA these things cannot fall under the natural flavors loophole and msg must be labeled
It is an emulsion of eggs and oil (eg a mayonnaise) that is thinned with water and then thickened and flavored