Ice Breakers Cherry Limeade
Ice Breakers Cherry Limeade by Hershey has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is NOT-APPLICABLE.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Snacks / Sweet snacks / Confectioneries / Candies / Chewing gum / Sugar-free chewing gum
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Ice Breakers Cherry Limeade, 5 of its 5 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Ice Breakers Cherry Limeade 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
SORBITOL, MALTODEXTRIN, CITRIC ACID, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: MALIC ACID, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL SOYBEAN OIL, COTTONSEED OIL, PALM OIL, ASPARTAME*, GUM ACACIA, MAGNESIUM STEARATE, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, MANNITOL, ARTIFICIAL COLOR (RED 40, YELLOW 5, BLUE 1). *PHENYLKETONURICS:CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Ice Breakers Cherry Limeade: 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: 5.
Product Details
- Brand
- Hershey
- Barcode
- 0034000722747
- Nutri-Score
- Grade NOT-APPLICABLE
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Ice Breakers Cherry Limeade rank on ingredient safety?
Ice Breakers Cherry Limeade 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 does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4/5 average places Ice Breakers Cherry Limeade in 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.