Friendly's Ice Cream Llc Nutri-Score E NOVA 4

Ice Cream Cake

Ice Cream Cake: 3/5 ingredient safety

Ice Cream Cake by Friendly's Ice Cream Llc has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3 out of 5, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.

  • Safety score 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

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How This Score Is Built

Ice Cream Cake 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). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are 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 Ice Cream Cake 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

3
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
1
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
E
Nutri-Score
1 ingredient flagged for safety concerns

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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,. VANILLA FLAVORED ICING (WATER, VEGETABLE OIL [PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL], DEXTROSE, CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, SODIUM CASEINATE, POLYSORBATE 60, CELLULOSE GUM, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, POLYGLYCEROL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, XANTHAN GUM, COLORS*), SKIM MILK, SUGAR, CHOCOLATY CRUNCH (BLEACHED WHEAT YOUR, SUGAR, COCOA [PROCESSED WITH ALKALI], PALM OIL, CORN SYRUP, CORN FLOUR, SOY LECITHIN, BAKING SODA, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS), CORN SYRUP, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WHEY, BUTTERMILK, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), VANILLA EXTRACT. PACKAGED DECORATIVE OPTIONS MAY INCLUDE: CONFETTI (SUGAR, RICE FLOUR, CORNSTARCH, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [COTTONSEED, SOYBEAN], CARRAGEENAN, CELLULOSE GUM, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, SOY LECITHIN, GUM ARABIC, GUM TRAGACANTH, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, COLORS*), COLORED SPRINKLES (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, SOY LECITHIN, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, COLORS*, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CAR

Product Details

Barcode
0029839401314
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 Cake rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Ice Cream Cake's 3/5 average puts it in the lower 98%, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 3/5 rating on Ice Cream Cake?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Ice Cream Cake's mapped ingredients average out to 3/5, which is 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.