Ice Cream
Scores 95/100 on FDA SAFFA + CSPI ingredient analysis , with 1 flagged ingredient identified.
The verdict
Ice Cream by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 29 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 29-component label is layered, beginning with Skim Milk, Cream, Salty Caramel Ripple. 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
- flagged ingredient of 29 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- E
- 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.
42128610 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Ice Cream label screening desk
Ice Cream screens 95/100 with 1 flagged of 29 parsed ingredients. 9 of 29 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: Mustard potato salad, mustard potato (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.
Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
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.
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 29 ingredients on its label
29 78th percentile a longer ingredient list than 78% 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
Skim milk, cream, salty caramel ripple (corn syrup, water, sweetened condensed milk [condensed milk, sugar], sweetened condensed skim milk [condensed skim milk, sugar], sugar, sea salt, pectin, xanthan gum, baking soda), sugar, caramel sea salt truffle (sugar, coconut oil, sweetened condensed milk [milk, sugar], corn syrup, skim milk, milk, cocoa processed with alkali, water, cream, butter [cream, salt], sea salt, soy lecithin, natural flavors), corn syrup, contains 2% or less of natural flavors, disodium phosphate, caramel (color), locust bean gum, guar gum, carrageenan.
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Ice Cream
Neighbours outside Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with screening scores in the same high band as Ice Cream (95/100 here). The More-from block above stays brand-local.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by ingredient screening score (95/100 on this barcode).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (29 on 0078742128610).
Barcode 0078742128610: 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.