Ice cream, chocolate fudge
Ice cream, chocolate fudge by Giant Eagle has 4 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.8 out of 5, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Desserts / Frozen foods / Frozen desserts / Ice creams and sorbets / Ice creams
How This Score Is Built
Ice cream, chocolate fudge 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). 4 of its 4 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, chocolate fudge sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.8 Top 84% higher than 16% 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
Milkfat and nonfat milk, chocolate fudge syrup (corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, buttermilk, sugar, skim milk, chocolate liquor, whey butter, cocoa [processed with alkali], pectin, mono - and diglycerides, salt, potassium sorbate [preservative], soy lecithin, xanthan gum, natural flavor], sugar, corn syrup, chocolate flavored flakes (sugar, hydrogenated coconut oil, cocoa, cocoa [processed with alkali], coconut oil, soy lecithin, salt, vanilla extract), high fructose corn syrup, cocoa (processed with alkali), sweetcream buttermilk, contains less than 2% of: whey, guar gum, mono - and diglycerides, xanthan gum, polysorbate 80, cellulose gum, carrageenan.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Ice cream, chocolate fudge: 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: 3.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Giant Eagle
- Barcode
- 0003003400238
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Ice cream, chocolate fudge above or below average on ingredient safety?
Ice cream, chocolate fudge scores 3.8 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 84% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.32 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 3.8/5 rating on Ice cream, chocolate fudge?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Ice cream, chocolate fudge's 3.8/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it 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.