Lemon Juice
Lemon Juice by Safeway Inc. has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 3 out of 5, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
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How This Score Is Built
Lemon Juice draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Lemon Juice sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3 Top 98% higher than 2% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
FILTERED WATER, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, SODIUM BISULFITE (A PRESERVATIVE), SODIUM BENZOATE (A PRESERVATIVE), LEMON OIL.
Product Details
- Brand
- Safeway Inc.
- Barcode
- 0021130313549
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Lemon Juice above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 3/5, Lemon Juice sits behind 98% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Lemon Juice's 3/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Lemon Juice's 3/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Mixed Evidence tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.