Lemon Oil
Lemon Oil appears in 1,693 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 Oil appears in 1,693 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.
- 1,693
- catalogued products
- #463
- usage rank of 247,206
- 608
- named brands represented
- 78%
- 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.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 446 of 1693 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% juice; 100% Juice; 100% Juice to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Lemon Oil itself. The ingredient most often sits near the end of the captured list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
446 of 1,693 linked records have some flagged component
All 1638 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
Lemon Oil: top-decile catalog footprint (#463 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #463
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 78%
- Mean relative depth 78% across 1,694 parsed labels, slot 20.5 on average. Lemon Oil tends to sit near the end of the captured 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Lemon Oil
Across the 1,693 products on this site that list Lemon Oil, 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 Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 149 | 8.8% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 105 | 6.2% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 103 | 6.1% | 4.8% |
| BHT | 81 | 4.8% | 1.1% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 65 | 3.8% | 1.4% |
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 Oil
Products Containing Lemon Oil
High-volume slice (16 of 1,693) for products naming Lemon Oil:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Rennet”)
High-volume peers for Lemon Oil: 1,693 products, mean screening score 93/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Rennet; Roasted Peanuts; Orange Juice Concentrate. 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.
Using the Lemon Oil evidence
Use the 1,693-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Review the sampled product records that list Lemon Oil 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. 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.
Lemon Oil — common follow-ups
Does Lemon Oil carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Lemon Oil. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lemon Oil? ▼
Lemon Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#463 of 247,206), appearing in 1,693 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lemon Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lemon Oil appears in 1,693 products (#463 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lemon Oil). 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.