Is Breyers Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 15 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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5 ingredients · no additives
NOVA group
3
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
milk, cream, sugar (processing marker), corn syrup, whey (ultra-processing marker), egg yolks, carob bean gum (ultra-processing marker), mono- and diglycerides (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), natural flavor (ultra-processing marker), vanilla extract, annatto (ultra-processing marker) (for color (ultra-processing marker)), guar gum (ultra-processing marker), tara gum (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E160b Annatto , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E417 Tara gum , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids
As written on the pack
milk, cream, sugar, corn syrup, whey, egg yolks, carob bean gum, mono and diglycerides, salt, natural flavor, vanilla extract*, annatto (for color), guar gum, tara gum,
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
- E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
- E417 Tara gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
- E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
3 ingredients that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
Among 321 ice creams
From least to most processed, this one ranks 176th. 93% of the ice creams here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0077567226006, last edited 4 April 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.