Lil' Love Ice Cream Cake
Lil' Love Ice Cream Cake by Carvel has 11 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 E.
- Safety score in line with 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 Lil' Love Ice Cream Cake, 11 of its 11 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 Lil' Love Ice Cream Cake 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
MILKFAT AND NONFAT MILK, SUGAR, WATER, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, CORN SYRUP, DEXTROSE, COCONUT OIL, PALM AND PALM KERNEL OILS, COCOA ALKALI PROCESSED, COLORED WITH (CARAMEL COLOR, TITANIUM DIOXIDE), CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CORNSTARCH, RICE FLOUR, COCOA, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, SODIUM CASEINATE, WHEAT GLUTEN, CELLULOSE GUM, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYGLYCEROL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, GUAR GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, BAKING SODA, POLYSORBATE 65, POLYSORBATE 80, CARRAGEENAN, POLYSORBATE 60, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, CARBOHYDRATE GUM, TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS (POTASSIUM SORBATE), XANTHAN GUM, DEXTRIN, CONFECTIONER'S GLAZE, CARNAUBA WAX, GUM ARABIC, ARTIFICIAL COLORS (BLUE 1, YELLOW 5, RED 3, YELLOW 6 LAKE, BLUE 1 LAKE, YELLOW 5 LAKE, YELLOW 6, RED 40, BLUE 2 LAKE).
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Lil' Love Ice Cream Cake: 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: 11.
Product Details
- Brand
- Carvel
- Barcode
- 0016264007860
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Safeway
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Frequently asked questions
How does Lil' Love Ice Cream Cake's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Lil' Love Ice Cream Cake's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Lil' Love Ice Cream Cake's 4/5 score be read?
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 Lil' Love Ice Cream Cake 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.