Lemon Extract
Lemon Extract appears in 315 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 Extract appears in 315 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.
- 315
- catalogued products
- #1,439
- usage rank of 247,206
- 151
- named brands represented
- 73%
- 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 Extract: top-decile catalog footprint (#1,439 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #1,439
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 5 others that also appear in exactly 315 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 73%
- Mean relative depth 73% across 315 parsed labels, slot 18.2 on average. Lemon Extract tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Lemon Extract spans 151 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 365 everyday value, barbecue sauce; 365 everyday value, organic wafers, lemon; 57% cacao dark chocolate with lemon & pepper when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 97.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
151 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 229 of 299 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 Extract
Across the 315 products on this site that list Lemon Extract, 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.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lemon Extract products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 14 | 4.4% | 4.5% |
| Monk fruit extract | 7 | 2.2% | 0.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 2.2% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 6 | 1.9% | 1.4% |
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 1.9% | 5.7% |
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 Extract
Products Containing Lemon Extract
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 315 indexed products containing Lemon Extract:
High-volume peers for Lemon Extract beside “Coconut Extract”
Lemon Extract sits among other busy catalog rows (315 products, mean score 97.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Coconut Extract”, “Organic Coconut Palm Sugar”, “Gluten-free Oats”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
What to do with this Lemon Extract record
315 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Lemon Extract are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Lemon Extract before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Compare Lemon Extract with a peer such as “Coconut Extract” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- 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.
Questions readers ask about Lemon Extract
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Lemon Extract? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Lemon Extract, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,439 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lemon Extract? ▼
Lemon Extract ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,439 of 247,206), appearing in 315 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lemon Extract so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lemon Extract appears in 315 products (#1,439 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lemon Extract). 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.