Lime Zest
Lime Zest appears in 25 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 Zest appears in 25 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.
- 25
- catalogued products
- #8,001
- usage rank of 247,206
- 15
- named brands represented
- 82%
- 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.
High-volume listing for Lime Zest - usage rank #8,001
- Usage rank
- #8,001
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 249 others that also appear in exactly 25 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 82%
- Mean relative depth 82% across 25 parsed labels, slot 17.2 on average. Lime Zest tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Lime Zest spans 15 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with Artichokes; Artichokes Basil & Thyme; Bootleg Cocktail Mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 95.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
15 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 15 of 21 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.
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 Zest
Products Containing Lime Zest
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 25 indexed products containing Lime Zest:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Lime Zest sits among other busy catalog rows (25 products, mean score 95.8/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Lime Zest page
25 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Lime Zest are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Lime Zest before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- 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.
Lime Zest — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Lime Zest? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Lime Zest, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#8,001 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lime Zest? ▼
Lime Zest ranks in the top decile by product count (#8,001 of 247,206), appearing in 25 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lime Zest so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lime Zest appears in 25 products (#8,001 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lime Zest). 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.