Ice cream
Scores 95/100 on FDA SAFFA + CSPI ingredient analysis , with 1 flagged ingredient identified.
The verdict
Ice cream by Mayfield Dairy Farms Inc. scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 13 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. This is a focused 13-component label led by Milkfat And Nonfat Milk, Sugar, High-fructose corn syrup; compare those leading ingredients with the product's processing and nutrition fields before deciding whether it fits your goal. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 95/100
- Safe safety score
- 1
- flagged ingredient of 13 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.
43201781 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Ice cream label screening desk
Ice cream screens 95/100 with 1 flagged of 13 parsed ingredients. 7 of 13 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Derived index from public OFF + FDA SAFFA + CSPI data — not an official FDA rating; see methodology. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Creamy french vanilla (0 pts).
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. Ice cream 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
Ice cream lists 13 ingredients on its label
13 22nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 22% 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
- 460 products (4%)
- 8–10
- 568 products (5%)
- 10–12
- 830 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 952 products (9%)
- 14–16
- 1,030 products (9%)
- 16–18
- 971 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 838 products (8%)
- 20–22
- 777 products (7%)
- 22–24
- 663 products (6%)
- 24–26
- 592 products (5%)
- 26–28
- 540 products (5%)
- 28–30
- 440 products (4%)
- 30–32
- 426 products (4%)
- 32–34
- 345 products (3%)
- 34–36
- 310 products (3%)
- 36–38
- 245 products (2%)
- 38–40
- 217 products (2%)
- 40 and above
- 755 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
Full Ingredient List
Milkfat and nonfat milk, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, sweetcream buttermilk, cocoa (processed with alkali), cocoa, contains less than 2% of whey, cellulose gum, guar gum, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, salt, citric acid.
Other products containing Sweetcream Buttermilk
Sweetcream Buttermilk is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 388 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. 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.
More from Mayfield Dairy Farms Inc.
Cross-brand products with similar screening profiles
Two PlainFoodSafe-derived peer sets for Ice cream, both outside the Mayfield Dairy Farms Inc. brand so the neighborhoods are not catalog containment (the More-from block above stays brand-local).
Similar safety score
Nearest cross-brand products by ingredient screening score (95/100 here).
Similar ingredient-count peers
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (13 here).
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. Product figures are computed directly from OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, and CSPI Chemical Cuisine data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.
