French Vanilla Ice Cream
French Vanilla Ice Cream by Signature Select has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 4 of 4 ingredients tracked for French Vanilla Ice Cream have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where French Vanilla Ice Cream sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
milk, cream, sugar, nonfat milk, egg custard base (sugar, pasteurized sugared egg yolks, water, natural flavors, turmeric and annatto [color]), corn syrup, whey, contains 2% or less of: natural vanilla flavor, natural flavor, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, ground vanilla beans, locust bean gum, polysorbate bally value (color). 80, carrageenan, annatto 190 13% contains: milk, eggs. tion facts 2/3 cup (88g) 30% tree nuts (pecans, hazelnuts, may contain: wheat, soy, peanuts, almonds, pistachios, coconuts, walnuts, cashews). 22%
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for French Vanilla Ice Cream: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Signature Select
- Barcode
- 0021130088010
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does French Vanilla Ice Cream rank on ingredient safety?
French Vanilla Ice Cream scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on French Vanilla Ice Cream?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. French Vanilla Ice Cream's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is the Low Risk 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.