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Is Van Leeuwen honeycomb french ice cream ultra-processed?

Ice creams Sold in the United States

Pack of Van Leeuwen honeycomb french ice cream

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 10 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed ice creams and sorbets

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cream, milk, cane sugar, egg yolks, tapioca syrup, baking soda, vanilla extract (grain alcohol, vanilla bean), salt

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Cream, milk, cane sugar, organic egg yolks, tapioca syrup, baking soda, vanilla extract (grain alcohol, vanilla bean), salt

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Ice creams Products in the category "Ice creams" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 321 ice creams

From least to most processed, this one ranks 23rd. 93% of the ice creams here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 321 ice creams, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0850005872191, last edited 20 September 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.