Western family, premium creamery select ice cream, black cherry

Western family, premium creamery select ice cream, black cherry: 4.2/5 ingredient safety

Western family, premium creamery select ice cream, black cherry by Western Family, Western Family Foods Inc. has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.

  • 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 Western family, premium creamery select ice cream, black cherry, 5 of its 5 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 Western family, premium creamery select ice cream, black cherry sits nationally

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

4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% 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

4.2
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4.2 out of 5
Based on 5 tracked ingredients
5
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
4
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

Milkfat and nonfat milk, black cherries (cherries, water, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, natural flavor, citric acid, tara gum, red #40, blue #1), sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, buttermilk, whey, natural flavors, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, carrageenan, beet juice (color).

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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Western family, premium creamery select ice cream, black cherry: 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
0015400214506
Nutri-Score
Grade D
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Western family, premium creamery select ice cream, black cherry rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Western family, premium creamery select ice cream, black cherry's 4.2/5 average puts it in the safer 60%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 4.2/5 rating on Western family, premium creamery select ice cream, black cherry?

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 4.2/5 average places Western family, premium creamery select ice cream, black cherry 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.