Treated With Lime

Treated With Lime appears in 9 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

Treated With Lime appears in 9 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.

9
catalogued products
#16,390
usage rank of 247,206
4
named brands represented
23%
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.

Treated With Lime sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#16,390 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#16,390
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 1,423 others that also appear in exactly 9 products.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
23%
Mean relative depth 23% across 9 parsed labels, slot 10.6 on average. Treated With Lime tends to sit near the top 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 11.1% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Treated With Lime spans 4 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Chicken Poppers; Chicken poppers; Michelina's, lean gourmet, maxican-style bake with enchilada sauce when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.4/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.

4 named brands carry this ingredient

The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 6 of 9 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 9 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 Treated With Lime

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 9 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 949698100102 00.511.5 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Treated With Lime Chicken PoppersChicken poppersMichelina's, lean gourmet, maxican-style bake with enchilada sauceSeasoned Round Corn Tortilla ChipsTortilla Chips Bites100% ground yellow corn roundsShrimp taco bowlTortilla chipsTortilla chips
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.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass

Top-decile company for Treated With Lime: 9 listings averaging 99.4/100.

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

What to do with this Treated With Lime record

Start from Treated With Lime's 9 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Treated With Lime?

This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Treated With Lime, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#16,390 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.

Which product shelves show up most often with Treated With Lime?

Treated With Lime ranks in the top decile by product count (#16,390 of 247,206), appearing in 9 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Treated With Lime so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Treated With Lime appears in 9 products (#16,390 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Treated With Lime). 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.