Ice cream cups
Ice cream cups by Valu Time, Topco has 4 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 D.
- 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
Ice cream cups 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 cups 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
Milkfat and nonfat milk, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, sugar syrup, whey, buttermilk, mono - and diglycerides, guar gum, xanthan gum, polysorbate 80, artificial flavor, locust bean gum, and carrageenan.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Ice cream cups: 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: 4.
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Product Details
- Brand
- Valu Time, Topco
- Barcode
- 0011225092312
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Ice cream cups rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Ice cream cups's 4.3/5 average puts it in the safer 62%, 0.18 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4.3/5 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 4.3/5 average places Ice cream cups 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.