Ice cream
Ice cream has 16 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.3 out of 5, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Desserts / Frozen foods / Frozen desserts
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 cream, 16 of its 16 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 cream sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.3 Top 38% higher than 62% 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
Strawberry flavored ice cream: milk, cream, sugar, corn syrup, nonfat milk, whey, fructose, strawberry puree, water, cane sugar, natural flavors, citric acid, sodium carbonate, sodium citrate, dipotassium phosphate, guar gum, potassium sorbate (preservative), mono and diglycerides, xanthan gum, polysorbate 80, carrageenan, beet juice (for color) strawberry juice concentrate, fd&c red 40. vanilla topping: water, sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, corn syrup. contains less than 2% of the following: sodium caseinate (a milk derivative), potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate (to preserve freshness), carbohydrate gum, polysorbate 60, artificial flavor, salt, soy protein isolate, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, mono and diglycerides, sodium citrate, disodium phosphate, soy lecithin, xanthan gum. strawberry variegate: sugar, strawberry puree, corn syrup, water, natural flavor, pectin, citric acid, malic acid, beet juice (for color), locust bean gum. s
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for 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: 4.3/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 16.
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Product Details
- Barcode
- 0020735160596
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Ice cream rank on ingredient safety?
Ice cream scores 4.3 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 62% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.3/5 ingredient safety score mean?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Ice cream's mapped ingredients average out to 4.3/5, 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.