Cedar Crest Specialties Inc. Nutri-Score E NOVA 4

Peanut butter cup ice cream

Peanut butter cup ice cream: 3.6/5 ingredient safety

Peanut butter cup ice cream by Cedar Crest Specialties Inc. has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.6 out of 5, 0.52 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.

  • Safety score 0.52 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Desserts / Frozen foods / Frozen desserts

How This Score Is Built

PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 5 of 5 ingredients tracked for Peanut butter cup ice cream have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.

Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.

Where Peanut butter cup ice cream sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

3.6 Top 87% higher than 13% 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

3.6
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 3.6 out of 5
Based on 5 tracked ingredients
5
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
3
Low Risk / Safe
E
Nutri-Score

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

Nonfat milk, cream, buttermilk, corn syrup, peanuts, cottonseed and or peanut oil, high fructose corn syrup, salt, corn sweeteners (corn & high fructose corn syrups), sweetened condensed skim milk (skim milk, sugar, corn syrup), cocoa (processed with alkali), whey, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, chocolate liquor, modified corn starch, sodium alginate, vanilla, artificial flavor, milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, dry whole milk, chocolate, soy lecithin, salt, vanilla), ground peanuts, sugar, palm kernel oil, lactose, mono & diglycerides, guar gum, cellulose gum, carrageenan, caramel color.

Compare beyond brand

Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Peanut butter cup 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.

Product Details

Barcode
0020652002214
Nutri-Score
Grade E
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Peanut butter cup ice cream rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Peanut butter cup ice cream's 3.6/5 average puts it in the lower 87%, 0.52 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3.6/5 ingredient safety score mean?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Peanut butter cup ice cream's 3.6/5 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.