D-limonene
D-limonene carries a source-backed screening score of 3/5 and appears in 6 indexed US food products.
Source-backed answer
D-limonene appears in 6 catalogued products. CSPI has no rating attached in this snapshot. Its FDA SAFFA status is “GRAS.” Those source labels describe the ingredient; they do not establish whether a particular product, dose, allergy, or diet is safe.
- 6
- catalogued products
- #21,732
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 75%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
High-volume listing for D-limonene - usage rank #21,732
- Usage rank
- #21,732
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2,975 others that also appear in exactly 6 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 75%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 6 products listing it (mean slot 17.3). D-limonene usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.7% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: D-limonene spans 4 named brands and is led by the Beverages and beverages preparations group. Start with Blink nutri tears; Cherry; Curl Peace Smoothing Ponytail & Edge Control when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
4 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 6 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
Function
FLAVORING AGENT OR ADJUVANT
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 6 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing D-limonene
Products Containing D-limonene
6 busy labels from the 6 indexed products that list D-limonene:
D-limonene vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for D-limonene: 6 listings averaging 95.8/100.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this D-limonene record
Start from D-limonene's 6 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for D-limonene and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
D-limonene — common follow-ups
What do the source ratings say about D-limonene? ▼
D-limonene has a PlainFoodSafe ingredient-screening score of 3/5. FDA SAFFA status: GRAS. With only 16.7% co-flag overlap in linked products, prevalence and label position often matter as much as the registry labels — and none of them establish product-level safety.
Which product shelves show up most often with D-limonene? ▼
D-limonene ranks in the top decile by product count (#21,732 of 247,206), appearing in 6 indexed products led by Beverages and beverages preparations. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
What does D-limonene do in food? ▼
D-limonene is recorded as a flavoring agent or adjuvant in source technical-effect fields.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (D-limonene). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.