Safe

Premium Ice Cream

by Purple Cow

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0708820678798 · Purple Cow · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0708820678798 · Serving size 0.5 cup (68 g)

The verdict

Premium Ice Cream by Purple Cow scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 22 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 22-component label is layered, beginning with Skim Milk, Cream, Sugar. 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 22 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.

20678798 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Premium Ice Cream label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-LAYERED 22 ing. REG-PART 36% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-D Nutri-D RANK-MID Len top 41% LEAD-FLAG Carrageenan PHOTO-FINISH Hawaiian Style Sesame · ±0 BOOK-OFF …678798 · July 2026

8 of 22 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Carrageenan). Source sheet 20678798 · 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: Hawaiian Style Sesame Ginger Dressing · Nearest score peer is Hawaiian Style Sesame Ginger Dressing 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.

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

1. Premium Ice Cream: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Premium Ice Cream95/1002. Hawaiian Style Sesame Ginger Dressing: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Hawaiian Style Sesame Gin…95/1003. Meijer, country gravy mix: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Meijer, country gravy mix95/1004. Homogenized Evaporated Milk: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Homogenized Evaporated Mi…95/1005. Beef & Cheese Mini Tacos: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Beef & Cheese Mini Tacos95/100
High-band neighbours for Premium Ice Cream (95/100) outside Purple Cow.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Premium Ice Cream
95/100
Hawaiian Style Sesame Ginger Dressing
95/100
Meijer, country gravy mix
95/100
Homogenized Evaporated Milk
95/100
Beef & Cheese Mini Tacos
95/100

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. Premium 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

Premium Ice Cream lists 22 ingredients on its label

22 59th percentile a longer ingredient list than 59% of the 11,156 products we track

0–2: 2 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 14 products (0%). Below this entry. 4–6: 181 products (2%). Below this entry. 6–8: 461 products (4%). Below this entry. 8–10: 573 products (5%). Below this entry. 10–12: 828 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 954 products (9%). Below this entry. 14–16: 1,026 products (9%). Below this entry. 16–18: 970 products (9%). Below this entry. 18–20: 842 products (8%). Below this entry. 20–22: 774 products (7%). Below this entry. 22–24: 666 products (6%). This entry sits in this band. 24–26: 590 products (5%). Above this entry. 26–28: 542 products (5%). Above this entry. 28–30: 439 products (4%). Above this entry. 30–32: 422 products (4%). Above this entry. 32–34: 346 products (3%). Above this entry. 34–36: 312 products (3%). Above this entry. 36–38: 249 products (2%). Above this entry. 38–40: 211 products (2%). Above this entry. 40–42: 754 products (7%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Desserts product, bucketed by value

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

11,156 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 22 (59th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

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%)
26–28
542 products (5%)
28–30
439 products (4%)
30–32
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 22 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.

Full Ingredient List

Skim milk, cream, sugar, peaches (peaches, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, modified cornstarch, carrageenan, natural flavor, citric acid, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate [preservatives]), pie chips (unenriched wheat flour, sugar, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, butter [cream, salt], pasteurized eggs, salt), corn syrup, whey, contains 2% or less of natural flavor, locust bean gum, guar gum, carrageenan.

Categories

Desserts Frozen foods Frozen desserts

High-score cross-brand comparables for Premium Ice Cream

Neighbours outside Purple Cow with screening scores in the same high band as Premium Ice Cream (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Purple Cow; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Carrageenan is the first flagged ingredient selected from Premium Ice Cream's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 22-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Carrageenan. Open Carrageenan
  • Compare Premium Ice Cream'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 0708820678798: 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.