ICE CREAM
Processing
4
Ultra-processed
Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale
Additives listed
6
0 we grade moderate or higher
5 of them not yet assessed here
Saturates per 100g
8g
High
UK FSA front of pack threshold
Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.
Additives (6)
This label lists 2 thickeners and gelling agents, 1 acidity regulator, 1 emulsifier and 1 raising agent. 1 more we cannot place from the code alone.
E471
Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids
Emulsifier
What it is. Fat derived emulsifiers, closely related to ordinary dietary fats.
Why it is used. One of the most used additives in food: bread, margarine, ice cream, cakes and sauces.
What the evidence says. The body handles these much as it handles other fats, and EFSA's re-evaluation raised no safety concern at the levels used. They sit in the same broad emulsifier and gut microbiome research question as the others, which remains unsettled.
Permitted without a numerical limit. The fat source is not always stated, which matters for some diets rather than for safety.
Assessed against EFSA. Full entry for E471
Also on the label, not assessed here yet
- E410 Locust bean gum thickener
- E412 Guar gum thickener
- E500 Sodium carbonates raising agent
- E524 Sodium hydroxide acidity regulator
- E527 No entry in our register
Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.
Ingredients
Reconstituted skimmed MILK concentrate, crushed chocolate flavour cookies (9.5%) (WHEAT flour, sugar, rapeseed oil, fat reduced cocoa powder glucose-fructose syrup, WHEAT starch, raising agents (ammonium potassium and sodium carbonates), palm oil, salt, emulsifier (SOYA lecith addity regulator (sodium hydroxide), flavourings), glucose syrup, coconut al sugar, skimmed MILK concentrate, mini chocolate flavour cookies WHEAT flour, sugar, palm oil, fat reduced cocoa powder, glucose syrup st raising agent (sodium hydrogen carbonate), flavouring, acidity regulators (sodium hydroxide, ammonium hydroxide)), whey powder (from L emulsifier (E471), stabilisers (E410, E412), flavouring. May contain PEANUTS NUTS and MUSTARD. Suitable for vegetarians. Froner Ice Cream UK Ltd, Leeming Bar, United Kingdom, DL7 9UL. Unit D Baldonnell Business Park, Baldonnell, Co. Dublin, Ireland. CONSUMER SERVICE: www.oreoicecream.com O is a trademark of the Mondelez International group used under license. Froneri ke Cream UK Ltd, Leeming Bar, United Kingdom, PUL Unit D, Baldonnell Business Park, dunnell, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.