Eclair Cake

How it compares with other cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes

Per 100 g, it has more sugar than 23% of the 8,749 cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes products in USDA's branded database, and it has more sodium than 37% of them.

Where the calories come from: 42% carbohydrate, 54% fat and 4% protein (4 calories a gram of protein or carbohydrate, 9 of fat).

Other cake in this aisle

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; 1,553 have less sodium than this one.

What is in it

Ingredients (as submitted): CAKE MIX (SUGAR, ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SOYBEAN OIL, WHEY, EMULSIFIER BLEND [PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO- AND DIESTERS OF FATS AND FATTY ACIDS, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, ASCORBIC ACID {PRESERVATIVE}], SALT, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, LEAVENING [SODIUM ALUMINIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE], ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), CREAM CHEESE (PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK AND CREAM, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, CAROB BEAN GUM, GUAR GUM), HEAVY CREAM (MILK, CREAM, CARRAGEENAN), EGGS, SOYBEAN OIL, SEMISWEET CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, COCOA BUTTER, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLIN [AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR]), BUTTER WITH NATURAL FLAVOR (PASTEURIZED CREAM, NATURAL FLAVORS), VANILLA FILLING (SUGAR, NONFAT MILK, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE [COLOR], CORN STARCH, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE], DEXTROSE, WHEAT STARCH, MALTODEXTRIN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6), SUGAR, ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, ENZYME, FOLIC ACID), GRAHAM CRACKER CRUMBS (ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], GRAHAM FLOUR, SUGAR, PALM OIL, BROWN SUGAR, HONEY, SALT, BAKING SODA, NATURAL FLAVOR), POWDERED SUGAR (SUGAR, CORNSTARCH), NON-DAIRY WHIPPED TOPPING (WATER, PALM KERNEL OIL, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: COCONUT OIL, SODIUM CASEINATE [A MILK DERIVATIVE], DEXTROSE, POLYSORBATE 60, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM, BETA CAROTENE [FOR COLOR]), WHITE COATING (SUGAR, PALM KERNEL OIL, WHEY POWDER, NONFAT MILK POWDER, SOY LECITHIN, MONOGLYCERIDES, TITANIUM DIOXIDE COLOR, NATURAL FLAVORS), CORN SYRUP, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH POTASSIUM CARBONATE), SUGARED EGG YOLKS (EGG YOLKS, SUGAR), DEXTROSE, GRAHAM CRACKER COMPOUND (NATURAL FLAVOR, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, FRUCTOSE, SALT), SALT, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR BLEND (DEXTROSE, CORN STARCH, TURMERIC [COLOR], NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BETA-APO-8'-CAROTENAL [COLOR] ALCOHOL, MIXED TOCOPHEROLS [PRESERVATIVE]), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, VANILLA BEANS, BAKING POWDER (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, CORN STARCH, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE).

The statement lists 24 ingredients at the top level, beginning with Cake Mix (sugar, Enriched Bleached Flour [wheat Flour, Niacin. 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 Feb 17, 2018), not the label on the shelf today.

Source: the ingredient statement Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. submitted to USDA (FoodData Central 2056822).

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