Lime
Lime appears in 841 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
Lime appears in 841 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.
- 841
- catalogued products
- #739
- usage rank of 247,206
- 305
- named brands represented
- 54%
- 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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 188 of 841 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 0000 LIME PICKLE Tangy and fiery, with zesty lime; 04 turmeric tang; 100% cold-pressed juice to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Lime itself. The ingredient most often sits in the lower half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
188 of 841 linked records have some flagged component
All 790 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.
Lime sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#739 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #739
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 842 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Mean relative depth 54% across 842 parsed labels, slot 9.0 on average. Lime 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.
What else is usually in the same product as Lime
Across the 841 products on this site that list Lime, 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. Sucralose shows up about 3x more often with Lime than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lime products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 67 | 8% | 2.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 63 | 7.5% | 4.8% |
| Red 40 | 31 | 3.7% | 5.4% |
| Acesulfame Potassium | 24 | 2.9% | 1.8% |
| Blue 1 | 24 | 2.9% | 4.2% |
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 Lime
Products Containing Lime
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 841 indexed products containing Lime:
Lime vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Top-decile company for Lime: 841 listings averaging 93.6/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Apple Puree Concentrate · Raspberry Puree · Chicken Meat.
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.
Using the Lime evidence
Start from Lime's 841 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Lime and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Lime 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 Lime. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lime? ▼
Lime ranks in the top decile by product count (#739 of 247,206), appearing in 841 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lime so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lime appears in 841 products (#739 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lime). 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.