Banana split ice cream
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0070640034338 · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Banana split ice cream scores 40/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 53 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 53-component record, beginning with Milk, Skim Milk, Cream. 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 53 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- B
- 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
43/100
Grade D
Ingredient Safety
40/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
B
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.
40034338 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Banana split ice cream label screening desk
15 of 53 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polydextrose). Source sheet 40034338 · 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
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.
The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.
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.
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 ice cream 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 ice cream lists 53 ingredients on its label
53 98th percentile a longer ingredient list than 98% 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 40/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (4 flagged of 53 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Milk, skim milk, cream, strawberry banana ribbon (strawberries, liquid maltitol (maltitol, water), liquid polydextrose (polydextrose, water), banana puree (bananas, citric acid, ascorbic acid), water, food starch-modified, natural flavor, pectin (pectin, dextrose, sodium citrate), food acids (phosphoric, citric, malic, and tartaric acids), red 40, sucralose, acesulfame potassium), maltodextrin, polydextrose, chocolate ribbon {liquid sorbitol, polydextrose, water, maltitol, cocoa processed with alkali, cocoa, salt, artificial & natural flavor, tricalcium phosphate, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, food starch-modified}, sorbitol, pineapple chunks and cherries {pineapple, cherries, water, sorbitol, maltodextrin, food starch-modified, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, turmeric for color, red 40, sucralose, acesulfame potassium}, mixed nuts (almonds, cashews, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt), contains less than 1% of glycerin, propylene glycol monoesters, mono & diglycerides, guar gum, carob bean gum, cellulose gel, cellulose gum, vanilla extract and artificial vanilla flavor, carrageenan, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, vitamin a palmitate.
Other products containing And Tartaric Acids
And Tartaric Acids is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 5 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polydextrose is the first flagged ingredient selected from Banana split ice cream's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 53-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polydextrose. Open Polydextrose
- Compare Banana split ice cream'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 0070640034338: 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.