# Water ices — What a food must legally contain to use its name: FDA standards of identity, in one table

For Water ices, cfr section is 21 CFR 135.160; category (cfr part) is Frozen Desserts; composition requirements is Water ices are the foods each of which is prepared from the same ingredients and in the same manner prescribed in  § 135.140 for sherbets, except that the mix need not be pasteurized, and complies with all the provisions of  § 135.140 (including the requirements for label statement of ingredients), except that no milk or milk-derived ingredient and no egg ingredient, other than egg white, is used; what separates it from neighbours is no milk or milk-derived ingredient and no egg ingredient, other than egg white, is used, recorded from its source on 2026-08-11.

- **CFR section:** 21 CFR 135.160 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Standardized food:** Water ices _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Category (CFR part):** Frozen Desserts _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Composition requirements:** Water ices are the foods each of which is prepared from the same ingredients and in the same manner prescribed in  § 135.140 for sherbets, except that the mix need not be pasteurized, and complies with all the provisions of  § 135.140 (including the requirements for label statement of ingredients), except that no milk or milk-derived ingredient and no egg ingredient, other than egg white, is used. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **What separates it from neighbours:** no milk or milk-derived ingredient and no egg ingredient, other than egg white, is used _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> § 135.160 Water ices. ( a ) Description. Water ices are the foods each of which is prepared from the same ingredients and in the same manner prescribed in <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-135.140> § 135.140 for sherbets, except that the mix need not be pasteurized, and complies with all the provisions of <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-135.140> § 135.140 (including the requirements for label statement of ingredients), except that no milk or milk-derived ingredient and no egg ingredient, other than egg white, is used.

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-135

Last verified: 2026-08-11. Review by: 2027-08-11.
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