Lion's Mane
Lion's Mane appears in 96 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
Lion's Mane appears in 96 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.
- 96
- catalogued products
- #3,214
- usage rank of 247,206
- 47
- named brands represented
- 59%
- 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.
Lion's Mane sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,214 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #3,214
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 23 others that also appear in exactly 96 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 59%
- Averaged label depth puts Lion's Mane in the lower half of the list (59% of list length, mean slot 16.1). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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 1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Lion's Mane spans 47 named brands and is led by the Dietary supplements group. Start with All in one nutrition shake; Almond Butter Chip; Almond Butter Chip when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.8/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
47 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 72 of 78 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 Lion's Mane
Across the 96 products on this site that list Lion's Mane, 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. Monk fruit extract shows up about 29.2x more often with Lion's Mane than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Lion's Mane products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monk fruit extract | 14 | 14.6% | 0.5% |
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 Lion's Mane
Products Containing Lion's Mane
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 96 indexed products containing Lion's Mane:
Lion's Mane vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Lion's Mane sits among other busy catalog rows (96 products, mean score 99.8/100). Nearest count peers include “Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate”, “Annatto Coloring”, “Cake”. 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.
What to do with this Lion's Mane record
Use the 96-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Open the product sample for Lion's Mane and read how the term sits on real packages. See listed products
- Place Lion's Mane next to “Annatto Coloring” (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.
Questions readers ask about Lion's Mane
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Lion's Mane? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Lion's Mane, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,214 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Lion's Mane? ▼
Lion's Mane ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,214 of 247,206), appearing in 96 indexed products led by Dietary supplements. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Lion's Mane so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lion's Mane appears in 96 products (#3,214 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lion's Mane). 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.