Lime Oil
Lime Oil appears in 676 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 Oil appears in 676 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.
- 676
- catalogued products
- #856
- usage rank of 247,206
- 270
- named brands represented
- 77%
- 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.
Lime Oil sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#856 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #856
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 676 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 77%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 676 products listing it (mean slot 18.1). Lime Oil usually falls near the end of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 16.6% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Lime Oil spans 270 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 100% Juice Lime From Concentrate; 100% juice lime juice from concentrate; 100% Lime Juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.6/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
270 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 506 of 650 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 Lime Oil
Across the 676 products on this site that list Lime 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 Lime Oil products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 39 | 5.8% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 36 | 5.3% | 4.5% |
| Blue 1 | 18 | 2.7% | 4.2% |
| Yellow 5 | 15 | 2.2% | 4.8% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 12 | 1.8% | 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 Lime Oil
Products Containing Lime Oil
High-volume slice (16 of 676) for products naming Lime Oil:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Annatto Extract Color”)
Lime Oil sits among other busy catalog rows (676 products, mean score 96.6/100). Nearest count peers include “Annatto Extract Color”, “Sweet Cream”, “Brazil Nuts”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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 Lime Oil page
676 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Lime Oil are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Lime Oil to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Lime Oil
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Lime Oil? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Lime Oil, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#856 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lime Oil? ▼
Lime Oil ranks in the top decile by product count (#856 of 247,206), appearing in 676 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lime Oil so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lime Oil appears in 676 products (#856 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lime 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.