Light Ice Cream, Chocolate
by M&M's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0047677386518 · M&M's · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Light Ice Cream, Chocolate by M&M's scores 0/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 47 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 11 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 47-component record, beginning with Milk, Cream, Corn Syrup. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 0/100
- Avoid safety score
- 11
- Many flagged · of 47 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
13/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
0/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
77386518 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Light Ice Cream, Chocolate label screening desk
20 of 47 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Blue 2). Source sheet 77386518 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Snickers Ice Cream Minis with m&m's minis · Nearest score peer is Snickers Ice Cream Minis with m&m's minis at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. Light Ice Cream, Chocolate scores 92.9 points below that category average (0/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Desserts products
Light Ice Cream, Chocolate lists 47 ingredients on its label
47 97th percentile a longer ingredient list than 97% of the 11,156 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 2 products (0%)
- 2–4
- 14 products (0%)
- 4–6
- 181 products (2%)
- 6–8
- 461 products (4%)
- 8–10
- 573 products (5%)
- 10–12
- 828 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 954 products (9%)
- 14–16
- 1,026 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 970 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 842 products (8%)
- 20–22
- 774 products (7%)
- 22–24
- 666 products (6%)
- 24–26
- 590 products (5%)
- 26–28
- 542 products (5%)
- 28–30
- 439 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 422 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 346 products (3%)
- 34–36
- 312 products (3%)
- 36–38
- 249 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 211 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 754 products (7%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 11,156 Desserts products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 0/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (11 flagged of 47 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Ice cream: milk, cream, corn syrup, skim milk, high fructose corn syrup, whey, buttermilk, sugar, cocoa powder processed with alkali, carob bean gum, guar gum, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, natural and artificial flavors, cellulose gel, cellulose gum, polysorbate 80. m&m's brand minis milk chocolate candies: [milk chocolate (sugar, chocolate, skim milk, cocoa butter, lactose, milkfat, soy lecithin, salt, artificial flavors), sugar, cornstarch, corn syrup, coloring (includes yellow 5 lake, red 40 lake, blue 1 lake, yellow 6 lake, blue 2 lake, yellow 5, red 40, blue 1, yellow 6, blue 2), dextrin], cocoa butter. chocolate variegate: sugar, soybean oil, cocoa powder processed with alkali, skim milk, coconut oil, soy lecithin, mono and diglycerides, salt. sprinkles: sugar, corn starch, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (soybean and/or cottonseed), coloring (includes blue 1 lake, red 40 lake, yellow 5 lake, yellow 6 lake, soy lecithin, dextrin, confectioner's glaze, natural and artificial flavors, carnauba wax.
Other products containing Includes Yellow 5 Lake
Includes Yellow 5 Lake is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 54 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
More from M&M's
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Light Ice Cream, Chocolate
Neighbours outside M&M's in the same lower screening band as Light Ice Cream, Chocolate (0/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within M&M's; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (11 flagged of 47 on 0047677386518).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (47 on 0047677386518).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Blue 2 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Light Ice Cream, Chocolate's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 47-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Blue 2. Open Blue 2
- Compare Light Ice Cream, Chocolate's 11 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0047677386518: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.