Blue Ribbon Classics, Reduced Fat Ice Cream With Chocolate Or Strawberry Swirl, Sundae
Contains 5 flagged ingredients
Blue Ribbon Classics, Reduced Fat Ice Cream With Chocolate Or Strawberry Swirl, Sundae by Wells Enterprises Inc. receives a safety score of 35/100 based on ingredient analysis using FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) data and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. The product contains 5 ingredients that have been flagged for potential safety concerns by regulatory or consumer advocacy databases. Product label data is sourced from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative database. See the full ingredient breakdown and safety assessment below.
What the Data Says About
Blue Ribbon Classics, Reduced Fat Ice Cream With Chocolate Or Strawberry Swirl, Sundae by Wells Enterprises Inc. carries a composite safety score of 35/100, which we classify as "Avoid" on our four-tier shelf-label framework. The score is computed by mapping each labeled ingredient against FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) regulatory status and CSPI Chemical Cuisine classifications, then penalizing the overall product for each additive rated as caution-or-worse. Product data originates from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative catalog; safety annotations come from federal regulators and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Our scan identified 5 flagged ingredients in this product — components that at least one official source has classified as requiring caution, targeted avoidance, or further evaluation. Flagged ingredients are the items most likely to surface in FDA inspection findings, state-level ingredient bans, or outbreak-related recall notices, so the per-ingredient breakdown below is the most useful lens for anyone screening this product for a specific dietary concern.
On the NOVA processing scale, Blue Ribbon Classics, Reduced Fat Ice Cream With Chocolate Or Strawberry Swirl, Sundae is classified as Group 4 (Ultra-processed). NOVA measures industrial processing intensity rather than ingredient-level safety, so it complements the SAFFA and CSPI ratings: a product can be clean on additive flags but heavily processed, or lightly processed but carry individually flagged ingredients. Combining both lenses gives a fuller picture than either alone.
Safety Profile at a Glance
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PlainFoodSafe Score | 35/100 | FDA SAFFA + CSPI composite |
| Flagged ingredients | 5 | CSPI/FDA review |
| NOVA processing group | Group 4 | OpenFoodFacts |
| Nutri-Score | Not available | OpenFoodFacts |
Composite metric derived from FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine, OpenFoodFacts. See methodology.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
Chocolate sundae: skim milk, cream, milk, whey, buttermilk, chocolate swirl (corn syrup, sugar, water, palm oil, unsweetened chocolate processed with alkili, cocoa processed with alkali, pectin, mono & diglycerides, polysorbate 80), corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, sugar contains 2% or less of mono & diglycerides, carob bean gum, guar gum, artificial flavor, vanilla extract, cellulose gel, celluluse gum, carrageenan, vitamin a palmitate, caramel color, annotto for color. steawberry sundae: skim milk, cream, milk, whey, buttermilk, strawberry swirl (water, sugar, corn syrup, food strach-modified, pectin, dextrose, natural flavor, strawberry juice concentrate, citric acid, cherry juice concentrate, red 40, blue 1), corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, contains 2% or less of mono & diglycerides, carob bean gum, guar gum, artificial flavor, vanilla extract, celluluse gel, celluluse gum, carrageenan, vitamin a palmitate, caramel color, annatto for color
Data Sources
Data as of 2025. Source: OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine.
Product data from OpenFoodFacts (ODbL). Ingredient safety ratings from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine. See our methodology for details.
This information is for reference only and does not constitute dietary or medical advice.
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