Lucerne Dairy Farms Nutri-Score D NOVA 4

Reduced Fat Ice Cream

Reduced Fat Ice Cream: 3.5/5 ingredient safety

Reduced Fat Ice Cream by Lucerne Dairy Farms has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.

  • Safety score 0.62 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

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 Reduced Fat Ice Cream, 2 of its 2 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 Reduced Fat Ice Cream sits nationally

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

3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% 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

3.5
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3.5 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
D
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

SKIM MILK, CREAM, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, WHEY, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, GUAR GUM, CELLULOSE GUM, CARRAGEENAN, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, DEXTROSE, VANILLA EXTRACT AND VANILLIN FLAVOR (AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), ANNATTO COLOR.

Product Details

Barcode
0021130098514
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Is Reduced Fat Ice Cream above or below average on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Reduced Fat Ice Cream's 3.5/5 average puts it in the lower 91%, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 3.5/5 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 3.5/5 average places Reduced Fat Ice Cream in 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.