Lemon Balm
Lemon Balm appears in 87 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Lemon Balm appears in 87 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 87
- catalogued products
- #3,457
- usage rank of 247,206
- 41
- named brands represented
- 52%
- 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.
Lemon Balm sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,457 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,457
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 31 others that also appear in exactly 87 products, listed in more products than 98.6% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 52%
- Mean relative depth 52% across 87 parsed labels, slot 9.9 on average. Lemon Balm tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Lemon Balm spans 41 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Advanced Perfect Prenatal Multivitamin; Aromaticas Herbal Tea, Lemon Balm; Berry when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
41 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 54 of 76 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Lemon Balm
Across the 87 products on this site that list Lemon Balm, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Aspartame shows up about 7.7x more often with Lemon Balm than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lemon Balm products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspartame | 6 | 6.9% | 0.9% |
| Monk fruit extract | 6 | 6.9% | 0.5% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 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 Lemon Balm
Products Containing Lemon Balm
High-volume slice (16 of 87) for products naming Lemon Balm:
Lemon Balm vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Lemon Balm: 87 products, mean screening score 98.4/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Apple Filling; Beetroot; Organic Black Chia Seeds. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Lemon Balm record
Start from Lemon Balm's 87 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Lemon Balm to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Lemon Balm? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Lemon Balm, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,457 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lemon Balm? ▼
Lemon Balm ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,457 of 247,206), appearing in 87 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lemon Balm so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lemon Balm appears in 87 products (#3,457 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lemon Balm). 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.