Natural Lime Flavor
Natural Lime Flavor 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
Natural Lime Flavor 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
- 110
- 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.
Natural Lime Flavor sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#2,031 / 247,206)
- 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
- 73%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 188 products listing it (mean slot 11.8). Natural Lime Flavor usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 13.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Natural Lime Flavor spans 110 named brands and is led by the Beverages group. Start with Ahold, simply enjoy, sparkling beverage, limeade, limeade; Aqua probiotic seltzer raspberry lime; Aqua Seltzer Cucumber + Mint when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 94.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
110 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 187 of 188 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 Natural Lime Flavor
Across the 188 products on this site that list Natural Lime Flavor, 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 Natural Lime Flavor products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red 40 | 10 | 5.3% | 5.4% |
| Blue 1 | 8 | 4.3% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 7 | 3.7% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 6 | 3.2% | 3.4% |
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 Natural Lime Flavor
Products Containing Natural Lime Flavor
16 busy labels from the 188 indexed products that list Natural Lime Flavor:
Natural Lime Flavor vs other top-decile catalog footprints
High-volume peers for Natural Lime Flavor: 188 products, mean screening score 94.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Organic Alkalized; Enriched Long Grain Rice; Extractives Of Annatto. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Natural Lime Flavor page
Use the 188-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Natural Lime Flavor and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Place Natural Lime Flavor next to “Enriched Long Grain Rice” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Natural Lime Flavor? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Natural Lime Flavor, 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 Natural Lime Flavor? ▼
Natural Lime Flavor ranks in the top decile by product count (#2,031 of 247,206), appearing in 188 indexed products led by Beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Natural Lime Flavor so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Natural Lime Flavor appears in 188 products (#2,031 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Natural Lime Flavor). 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.