Lemon Grass
Lemon Grass appears in 188 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 Grass appears in 188 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.
- 188
- catalogued products
- #2,031
- usage rank of 247,206
- 74
- named brands represented
- 50%
- 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 Lemon Grass - usage rank #2,031
- Usage rank
- #2,031
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 11 others that also appear in exactly 188 products, listed in more products than 99.2% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Averaged label depth puts Lemon Grass in the upper half of the list (50% of list length, mean slot 10.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Lemon Grass spans 74 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Angel Brand, Sorrel Blend Tea; Archer farms, thai-style curry chicken soup; Aroy-D, Green Curry Soup, Medium when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.3/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
74 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 106 of 176 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 Grass
Across the 188 products on this site that list Lemon Grass, 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 Grass products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 11 | 5.9% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 5 | 2.7% | 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 Grass
Products Containing Lemon Grass
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 188 indexed products containing Lemon Grass:
High-volume peers for Lemon Grass beside “Organic Alkalized”
Top-decile company for Lemon Grass: 188 listings averaging 99.3/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Alkalized · Enriched Long Grain Rice · Extractives Of Annatto.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Using the Lemon Grass evidence
188 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Lemon Grass are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Lemon Grass before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Place Lemon Grass next to “Enriched Long Grain Rice” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Lemon Grass
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Lemon Grass? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Lemon Grass, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#2,031 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lemon Grass? ▼
Lemon Grass ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,031 of 247,206), appearing in 188 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lemon Grass so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lemon Grass appears in 188 products (#2,031 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lemon Grass). 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.