Buttercream Single White Cake

How it compares with other cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 90% of the 8,749 cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 91% of them.

Where the calories come from: 60% carbohydrate, 38% fat and 2% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

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4,864 of the 8,749 cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes products are named cake. Per 100 g their median is 388 calories, 294 mg of sodium and 3.6 g of protein; 4,457 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): BUTTERCREAM (POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL,MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60,TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID ADDED TO HELP PROTECT FLAVOR., PALM OIL WATER,SOYBEAN OIL, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF WHEY,30Y LECITHIN, VITAMIN A PALMITATE AND VITAMIN D3 ADDED NATURAL FLAVOR., BUTTER (PASTEURIZED CREAM, SALT), WHOLE MILK WITH VITAMIN D3, SALT, DEXTROSE, CORN STARCH, LESS THAN 0.1% TUMERIC, LESS THAN 0.1% APO CAROTENAL, ALCOHOL, NATURAL MIXED TOCOPHEROLS,A NATURAL SOURCE OF VITAMIN E USED TO PROTECT FRESHNESS., ALMOND EMULSION (WATER,PROPYLENE GLYCOL ,ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS,XANTHAN GUM,CITRIC ACID AND SODIUM BENZOATE)), CAKE (SUGAR, BLEACHED ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID) VEGETABLE SHORTENING [SOYBEAN OIL,VEGETABLE MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, DISTILLED PROPYLENE GLYCOL ESTER, TOCOPHEROLS(VITAMIN E) AND VITAMIN C PALMITATE (AS ANTIOXIDANTS)], DRIED EGG WHITES, LEAVENING (SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE), DRIED EGG YOLKS.CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE MODIFIED, SALT, DEXTROSE,CELLULOSE,DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS (MILK), SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, POLYSORBATE 60, EMULSIFIER (PROPYLENE GLYCOL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS,DISTILLED MONOGLYCERIDES, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE),GUAR GUM XANTHAN GUM,BOY FLOUR), WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, SPRINKLES (SUGAR,CORN STARCH, PALM OIL ARTIFICIAL COLORS(FD&C RED NO. 40 ALUMINUM LAKE,FD&C YELLOW NO.5 ALUMINUM LAKE, FD&C YELLOW NO. 6 ALUMINUM LAKE, FD&C BLUE NO. 1 ALUMINUM LAKE,FD&C RED NO. 3 AND MICA), CITRIC ACID,SHELLAC GUM AND POTASSIUM SORBATE AS PRESERVATIVE.),

The statement lists 6 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Buttercream (powdered Sugar (sugar, Cornstarch), Soybean Oil. It has no separate "Contains" line; a major allergen (the nine the FDA requires on labels: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, sesame) may be named inside the ingredients instead. For allergies, read the package: this is the record USDA holds (updated Nov 28, 2022), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Jerry's Enterprises Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2461769).

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