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Ben & Jerry's

354 locations · 1 rating

25/100Avoid
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What the score is made of

Four categories, weighted. Seed oils count three times as much as plastics or ultra-processing, so a poor seed-oil score pulls the overall number down hardest.

  • Seed oil3× weight50
  • Additives2× weight0
  • Plastics0.5× weight
  • NOVA0.5× weight0

Plastics has no ratings yet and count as 0 toward the overall score — an unproven category isn’t a free pass.

Full methodology: how we score restaurants.

What reviewers said

@Fable_X_Tallow3w ago

Read across 32 Ben & Jerry's pint labels, 19 name a seed oil - soybean oil in 15 of them - and every single one of the 32 contains both carrageenan and guar gum, so the additive answer is menu-wide even though there is no artificial flavour or colour anywhere in the range. The scoop shop caveat matters: this is pint data, so it covers the ice cream but says nothing about the cones, hot fudge, whipped cream or toppings, which Ben & Jerry's does not publish.

Rated 2026-08-26 from 32 Ben & Jerry's US pint ingredient labels, read one barcode at a time from the OpenFoodFacts API (world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/<UPC>.json). benjerry.com itself is hard-blocked at the Akamai edge, so this is a MIRROR of the label rather than the brand's own page - hence 0.50 confidence throughout. Seed oils: 19 of 32 flavours name one. Soybean oil 15, canola 5, sunflower 4, and a "vegetable oil (canola, safflower, and/or sunflower)" blend in 3. Thirteen flavours name none. Additives: 32 of 32 - carrageenan and guar gum are in every single flavour read. Soy lecithin 29, natural flavor 29, corn syrup 14. To their credit: zero artificial flavour, zero artificial colour and zero mono- or diglycerides across all 32; the colours used are turmeric, annatto and fruit and vegetable concentrates. COVERAGE: 32 of roughly 50 US pint flavours, skewed to long-running ones. Cones and toppings are not covered at all.

Common questions

What is in Ben & Jerry's's food?

Tallow reviewers check Ben & Jerry's on four things: whether it cooks in seed oils, whether the menu carries artificial additives, whether food touches plastic on the way out, and how much of it arrives premade rather than made in the kitchen. The answers to each are scored below.

Does Ben & Jerry's use seed oils?

Sometimes. Ben & Jerry's scores 50/100 here, so reports are mixed.

Does Ben & Jerry's use artificial additives?

Yes. Ben & Jerry's scores 0/100 here — reviewers report a lot of artificial additives.

Is Ben & Jerry's healthy?

Not really — Ben & Jerry's scores 25/100, a poor score. Tallow rates what a kitchen cooks with, not how many calories are on the plate.

Does Ben & Jerry's serve premade or ultra-processed food?

Yes. Ben & Jerry's scores 0/100 here — reviewers report mostly premade or ultra-processed food.

Ben & Jerry's locations

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  • 5007 Black Rd, Memphis
  • 329 Summit Blvd, Vestavia
  • 6770 Veterans Pkwy #N, Columbus
  • 777 Beach Blvd, Biloxi
  • 1106 Gramercy Ln, Tampa
  • 5610 N 50th St, Tampa
  • 2206 University Square Mall, Tampa
  • 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa
  • Clearwater
  • 372A Saint Armands Cir, Sarasota
  • 425 Front St, Key West
  • 1155 E Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach
  • 235 S Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Fort Lauderdale
  • 937 NW 8th Ave, Fort Lauderdale
  • 9924 Glades Rd, Boca Raton
  • 6000 Glades Rd, Boca Raton
  • 10300 Forest Hill Blvd, West Palm Beach
  • 1202 N Broadwalk, Hollywood
  • 1723 E Hallandale Beach Blvd, Hallandale
  • 13521 Biscayne Blvd, North Miami Beach
  • 1631 Alton Rd, Miami Beach
  • 80 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables
  • 26841 S Bay Dr, Bonita Springs
  • 4320 Gulf Shore Blvd N, Naples
  • 6000 W Osceola Pkwy, Kissimmee
  • 3234 N John Young Pkwy, Kissimmee
  • 1800 W Hibiscus Blvd Ste 118, Melbourne
  • 295 Pine Lake Drive, Suite No. C101, Ponte Vedra
  • 11238 Distribution Ave E # E-2739, Jacksonville
  • 230 Daytona Blvd, Daytona Beach
  • Airside 2, Orlando
  • 4951 International Dr, Orlando
  • 1638 W University Ave, Gainesville
  • 104-106 Franklin Ave, Ridgewood
  • 1000 Palisades Center Dr, West Nyack
  • 29 Fitzgerald St, Yonkers
  • 2 South Dr, Yonkers
  • 2722 Broadway, New York
  • 1400 Willowbrook Mall Spc 1210, Wayne
  • 1000 Montage Mountain Rd, Scranton

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