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Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt · barcode 00011161402336

Rocky Road Ice Cream, Rocky Road

Cow Belle Creamery · Topco Associates, Inc.

  • Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
  • RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
  • Additives2 ingredients are banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of ice cream & frozen yogurt show what's typical. See levels
  • Others3 other ice cream & frozen yogurt products have lab results. Compare them

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-03-19). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Titanium dioxide (E171)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a color additive, up to 1% of the food's weight. Source
  • EU: Removed from approved list from 2022-08-07 Removed as a food additive in 2022; food made under the old rules could be sold until August 7, 2022. (Regulation (EU) 2022/63) Source
  • Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source

Partially hydrogenated oils

  • US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) Source
  • Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source
  • Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source

Typical for ice cream & frozen yogurt

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 18 of 27, average 3.96, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 1 of 26, average 0.15, highest 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 27 of 27, average 7.27, highest 15 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 0 of 26, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 9 of 27, average 0.45, highest 2.3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 0 of 26, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 4 of 27, average 0.49, highest 3.4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 1 of 26, average 0.13, highest 3.3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Ice cream, regular, vanilla: found in 19 of 19, average 6.81, highest 12 ppb (2008-2012)

"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.

Not tested

No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

Ingredients (from the label)

CREAM, MILK, SUGAR, BUTTERMILK, WHEY, MARSHMALLOW RIBBON (CORN SYRUP, WATER, SUGAR, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, TITANIUM DIOXIDE FOR COLOR, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SALT, CITRIC ACID), CORN SYRUP, MIXED NUTS (ALMONDS, CASHEWS, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, SALT), COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, CONTAINS LESS THAN 1% OF CELLULOSE GEL, CELLULOSE GUM, CARRAGEENAN, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-03-19. Labels change; check the package.

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