Limes
Limes appears in 59 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
Limes appears in 59 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.
- 59
- catalogued products
- #4,436
- usage rank of 247,206
- 30
- 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.
Limes sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,436 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,436
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 62 others that also appear in exactly 59 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 54%
- Mean relative depth 54% across 59 parsed labels, slot 9.4 on average. Limes tends to sit in the lower half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
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 15.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Limes spans 30 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with Blueprint, Organic Kombucha Drink; Chicken Street Tacos; Cold Pressed Juice when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
30 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 30 of 55 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 Limes
Across the 59 products on this site that list Limes, 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 3.1x more often with Limes than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Limes products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sucralose | 5 | 8.5% | 2.7% |
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 Limes
Products Containing Limes
16 busy labels from the 59 indexed products that list Limes:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Orange Juice From Concentrate”)
Limes sits among other busy catalog rows (59 products, mean score 96.9/100). Nearest count peers include “100% Orange Juice From Concentrate”, “Organic Alfalfa Grass”, “Dried Ancho Pepper”. 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
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Limes page
59 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Limes are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Limes before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Limes next to “Organic Alfalfa Grass” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- 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.
Limes — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Limes? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Limes, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,436 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Limes? ▼
Limes ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,436 of 247,206), appearing in 59 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Limes so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Limes appears in 59 products (#4,436 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Limes). 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.