Ice cream sandwiches
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0078742122625 · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Ice cream sandwiches scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 35 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 3 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 35-component record, beginning with Vanilla Flavored Ice Cream, Cream, Milk. 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.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 3
- Few flagged · of 35 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
55/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
85/100
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.
42122625 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Ice cream sandwiches label screening desk
8 of 35 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 42122625 · 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 second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published 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.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
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 sandwiches scores 7.9 points below that category average (85/100 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
Ice cream sandwiches lists 35 ingredients on its label
35 88th percentile a longer ingredient list than 88% of the 11,156 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 2 products (0%)
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- 14 products (0%)
- 4–6
- 181 products (2%)
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- 461 products (4%)
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- 573 products (5%)
- 10–12
- 828 products (7%)
- 12–14
- 954 products (9%)
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- 1,026 products (9%)
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- 970 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 842 products (8%)
- 20–22
- 774 products (7%)
- 22–24
- 666 products (6%)
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- 590 products (5%)
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- 542 products (5%)
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- 439 products (4%)
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- 422 products (4%)
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- 346 products (3%)
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- 312 products (3%)
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- 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 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (3 flagged of 35 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Vanilla flavored ice cream (cream, milk, buttermilk, whey, sugar, corn syrup, skim milk, contains 2% or less of natural flavors, carob bean gum, cellulose gum, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, annatto extract for color). chocolate ice cream (cream, buttermilk, milk, whey, sugar, skim milk, corn syrup, cocoa processed with alkali, contains 2% or less of carob bean gum, cellulose gun, carrageenan, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 80). chocolate flavored wafers (wheat flour, sugar, caramel color, dextrose, palm oil, corn flour, contains 2% or less of corn syrup, cocoa processed with alkali, food starch-modified, salt, soy lecithin, mono and diglycerides, baking soda). vanilla flavored wafers (wheat flour, sugar, soybean oil, palm oil, corn syrup, contains 2% or less of soy lecithin, food starch-modified, salt, vanilla flavor, baking soda, annatto and turmeric for color).
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Ice cream sandwiches's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 35-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
- Compare Ice cream sandwiches's 3 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 0078742122625: 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.