Reduced Fat Ice Cream

Reduced Fat Ice Cream appears in 75 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.

What the data can answer

Reduced Fat Ice Cream appears in 75 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.

75
catalogued products
#3,802
usage rank of 247,206
11
named brands represented
0%
average depth down ingredient lists

Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.

What this page can and cannot answer

Audit the co-occurring flags first

100% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Reduced Fat Ice Cream as the trigger. Open records such as Big Double Strawberry Sandwich; BIG NEAPOLITAN SANDWICH; BIG VANILLA SANDWICH and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 78.2/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 0% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.

100% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient

Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 75 of 75 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.

Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.

Reduced Fat Ice Cream sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#3,802 / 247,206)

Usage rank
#3,802
of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 37 others that also appear in exactly 75 products, listed in more products than 98.5% of them.
Typical depth in an ingredient list
0%
Averaged label depth puts Reduced Fat Ice Cream near the top of the captured list (0% of list length, mean slot 1.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.

Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.

What else is usually in the same product as Reduced Fat Ice Cream

Across the 75 products on this site that list Reduced Fat Ice Cream, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Carrageenan shows up about 22.2x more often with Reduced Fat Ice Cream than in the catalogue at large.

Carrageenan: +95.5ppCarrageenan+95.5ppCaramel Coloring: +41ppCaramel Coloring+41ppPolysorbate 80: +32ppPolysorbate 80+32ppRed 40: +7.9ppRed 40+7.9ppYellow 6: +9.9ppYellow 6+9.9pp
Percentage-point gap vs the catalogue baseline rate for each additive, Reduced Fat Ice Cream products only. Source: Open Food Facts ingredient lists.
Chart values as text

Unit: percentage points above/below baseline. Data current as of September 2026.

Carrageenan
95.5pp
Caramel Coloring
41pp
Polysorbate 80
32pp
Red 40
7.9pp
Yellow 6
9.9pp
Additive Shared products Share of Reduced Fat Ice Cream products Share of all products
Carrageenan 75 100% 4.5%
Caramel Coloring 35 46.7% 5.7%
Polysorbate 80 25 33.3% 1.3%
Red 40 10 13.3% 5.4%
Yellow 6 10 13.3% 3.4%

Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.

How do the sampled products compare?

Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.

Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Reduced Fat Ice Cream

Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 entities by Safety score (X) and Flagged ingredients on label (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High score, still flaggedLow score, more flaggedHigh score, fewer flaggedLow score, fewer flagged 020406080100 0246810 Safety score Flagged ingredients on label Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Reduced Fat Ice Cream
Per-product safety score and flagged-ingredient count from the same sampled listings shown below. Bubble size = linked ingredient rows. Source: Open Food Facts labels x FDA SAFFA x CSPI Chemical Cuisine.

Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Alfredo Sauce”)

High-volume peers for Reduced Fat Ice Cream: 75 products, mean screening score 78.2/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Alfredo Sauce · Amaranth Seeds · Ascorbic Acid Added As Dough Conditioner. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.

Similar product count

Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).

Similar mean product score

Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.

Using the Reduced Fat Ice Cream evidence

75 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Reduced Fat Ice Cream are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.

  • Review the sampled product records that list Reduced Fat Ice Cream to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
  • Place Reduced Fat Ice Cream next to “Amaranth Seeds” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
  • Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins

This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

How should I read safety signals when Reduced Fat Ice Cream sits in heavily flagged products?

100% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Reduced Fat Ice Cream is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.

Which product shelves show up most often with Reduced Fat Ice Cream?

Reduced Fat Ice Cream ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,802 of 247,206), appearing in 75 indexed products led by Desserts. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.

Why is Reduced Fat Ice Cream so common on ingredient lists?

The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Reduced Fat Ice Cream appears in 75 products (#3,802 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.

Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Reduced Fat Ice Cream). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.