Banana split light ice cream, banana split
by Blue Bunny
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0070640010134 · Blue Bunny · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Banana split light ice cream, banana split by Blue Bunny scores 40/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 41 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 4 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 41-component record, beginning with Milk, Buttermilk, Whey. 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.
- 40/100
- Avoid safety score
- 4
- Many flagged · of 41 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
38/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
40/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
40010134 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Banana split light ice cream, banana split label screening desk
15 of 41 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Phosphoric Acid). Source sheet 40010134 · 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: Light Ice Cream · Nearest score peer is Light Ice Cream 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.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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. Banana split light ice cream, banana split scores 52.9 points below that category average (40/100 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
Banana split light ice cream, banana split lists 41 ingredients on its label
41 94th percentile a longer ingredient list than 94% of the 11,156 products we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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 40/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 41 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Milk, buttermilk, whey, sugar, corn syrup, strawberry swirl (strawberries, sugar, water, natural flavors, pectin, citric acid, phosphoric acid, malic acid, calcium chloride, strawberry juice concentrate, cherry juice concentrate, blue 1, red 40), banana base (banana puree (bananas, citric acid, ascorbic acid), corn syrup, sugar, water, ascorbic acid, natural flavor, pectin, citric acid, sodium citrate), fudge swirl (corn syrup, water, sugar, palm oil, unsweetened chocolate processed with alkali, cocoa processed with alkali, pectin, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 80), cream, pineapple pieces, cashews, skim milk, contains 2% or less of almonds, canola oil, salt, mono and diglycerides, carob bean gum, guar gum, carrageenan, polysorbate 80, vitamin a palmitate.
Other products containing Or Less Of Almonds
Or Less Of Almonds is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 5 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Banana split light ice cream, banana split
Neighbours outside Blue Bunny in the same lower screening band as Banana split light ice cream, banana split (40/100). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Blue Bunny; these peers cross brands.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (4 flagged of 41 on 0070640010134).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (41 on 0070640010134).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Phosphoric Acid is the first flagged ingredient selected from Banana split light ice cream, banana split's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 41-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Phosphoric Acid. Open Phosphoric Acid
- Compare Banana split light ice cream, banana split's 4 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 0070640010134: 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.