Lemon Juice
Lemon Juice appears in 7,111 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 Juice appears in 7,111 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.
- 7,111
- catalogued products
- #163
- usage rank of 247,206
- 2,032
- named brands represented
- 61%
- 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 Juice sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#163 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #163
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.9% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 61%
- Mean relative depth 61% across 7,192 parsed labels, slot 12.6 on average. Lemon Juice 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 12.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Lemon Juice spans 2032 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 1-step smoothie; 100% Fruit & Vegetable Juice; 100% Fruit & Vegetable Juice 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.
2032 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 4456 of 6695 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 Juice
Across the 7,111 products on this site that list Lemon Juice, 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 Juice products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 405 | 5.7% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 254 | 3.6% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 121 | 1.7% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 82 | 1.2% | 5.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 79 | 1.1% | 1.3% |
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 Juice
Products Containing Lemon Juice
High-volume slice (16 of 7,111) for products naming Lemon Juice:
Lemon Juice vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Lemon Juice: 7,111 products, mean screening score 97.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Organic Sunflower · Calcium Propionate · Palm. 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.
Next steps from the Lemon Juice page
Start from Lemon Juice's 7,111 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 Juice to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Compare Lemon Juice with a peer such as “Organic Sunflower” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Lemon Juice — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Lemon Juice? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Lemon Juice, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#163 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lemon Juice? ▼
Lemon Juice ranks in the top decile by product count (#163 of 247,206), appearing in 7,111 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lemon Juice so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lemon Juice appears in 7,111 products (#163 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lemon Juice). 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.