Lysozyme

Lysozyme appears in 43 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

Lysozyme appears in 43 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.

43
catalogued products
#5,507
usage rank of 247,206
22
named brands represented
66%
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.

Lysozyme sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#5,507 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#5,507
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 95 others that also appear in exactly 43 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
66%
Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 43 products listing it (mean slot 12.7). Lysozyme 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.

Reading this ingredient record

Use prevalence before concern

Only 2.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Lysozyme spans 22 named brands and is led by the Dairies group. Start with 4 Cheese Tortellini; Alfredo sauce; Artichoke & Quinoa Dip when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

22 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 23 of 41 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 Lysozyme

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 99.9100.0100.0100100.0100.0100.1 00.00.00.1 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Lysozyme
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Lysozyme vs other top-decile catalog footprints

Top-decile company for Lysozyme: 43 listings averaging 99.7/100.

Similar mean product score

Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.

Next steps from the Lysozyme page

Use the 43-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Lysozyme to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
  • Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Browse ingredient records
  • Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Lysozyme — common follow-ups

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Lysozyme?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Lysozyme, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,507 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Lysozyme?

Lysozyme ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,507 of 247,206), appearing in 43 indexed products led by Dairies. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Lysozyme so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Lysozyme appears in 43 products (#5,507 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Lysozyme). 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.