Snowman Low Fat Ice Cream
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0085239717738 · Target Stores · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Snowman Low Fat Ice Cream by Target Stores scores 90/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 19 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 2 ingredients are flagged for caution. The 19-component label is layered, beginning with Milkfat And Nonfat Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup. 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.
- 90/100
- Safe safety score
- 2
- Few flagged · of 19 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- 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
63/100
Grade C+
Ingredient Safety
90/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
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.
39717738 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Snowman Low Fat Ice Cream label screening desk
10 of 19 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Polysorbate 80). Source sheet 39717738 · 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: Ice cream · Nearest score peer is Ice cream 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.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
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. Snowman Low Fat Ice Cream scores 2.9 points below that category average (90/100 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
Snowman Low Fat Ice Cream lists 19 ingredients on its label
19 49th percentile a longer ingredient list than 49% of the 11,156 products we track
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Distribution as text
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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 90/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (2 flagged of 19 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Milkfat and nonfat milk, sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, sweetcream buttermilk, whey, contains less than 2% of cocoa (processed with alkali), artificial flavor, maltodextrin, whey protein concentrate, guar gum, mono & diglycerides. xanthan gum, polysorbate 80, carrageenan, annatto (color), red #40, blue #1, vitamin a palmitate.
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.
Categories
More from Target Stores
High-score cross-brand comparables for Snowman Low Fat Ice Cream
Neighbours outside Target Stores with screening scores in the same high band as Snowman Low Fat Ice Cream (90/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Target Stores; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (2 flagged of 19 on 0085239717738).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (19 on 0085239717738).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Polysorbate 80 is the first flagged ingredient selected from Snowman Low Fat Ice Cream's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 19-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Polysorbate 80. Open Polysorbate 80
- Compare Snowman Low Fat Ice Cream's 2 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 0085239717738: 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.