Julie's organic, ice cream, caramel
by Julie's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0072609736086 · Julie's · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Julie's organic, ice cream, caramel by Julie's scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 18 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 18-component label is layered, beginning with Cream And Skim Milk, Evaporated Cane Juice, Caramel Swirl. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 18 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
60/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
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.
09736086 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Julie's organic, ice cream, caramel label screening desk
5 of 18 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 09736086 · 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: Organic ice cream sandwich · Nearest score peer is Organic ice cream sandwich at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
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.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
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. Julie's organic, ice cream, caramel scores 2.1 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Desserts products
Julie's organic, ice cream, caramel lists 18 ingredients on its label
18 45th percentile a longer ingredient list than 45% 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%)
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- 542 products (5%)
- 28–30
- 439 products (4%)
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- 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 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 18 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Organic cream and organic skim milk, organic evaporated cane juice, organic caramel swirl (organic cane sugar. organic nonfat milk, organic cream, pectin, sodium citrate, salt, organic vanilla extract, sodium bicarbonate, natural caramel flavor with other natural flavors), organic egg yolks, organic caramel flavor, stabilizer (locust bean gum, guar gum, organic evaporated cane juice), annatto, organic caramel color.
Other products containing Natural Caramel Flavor With Other Natural Flavors
Natural Caramel Flavor With Other Natural Flavors is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 5 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Julie's organic, ice cream, caramel
Neighbours outside Julie's with screening scores in the same high band as Julie's organic, ice cream, caramel (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Julie's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 18 on 0072609736086).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (18 on 0072609736086).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Julie's organic, ice cream, caramel's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 18-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Julie's organic, ice cream, caramel's 1 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 0072609736086: 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.