This ratio can give you a sense of if this food is higher in carbs or lower in carbs than other foods by weight. Eating foods high in carbs can cause your blood glucose to spike faster than if the food or meal you're eating also contains protein or fat.
This ratio can estimate how much water this food contains relative to other foods. Water helps regulate body temperature, lubricate joints, flush out waste products, and protect our organs and tissue. Eating foods high in water can help you stay hydrated.
Cake Base (Bleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Food Starch-modified, Dextrose, Soybean Oil, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Cellulose Gum, Defatted Soy Flour, Eggs, Leavening [Baking Soda, Monocalcium Phosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate], Mono- And Diglycerides, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Propylene Glycol Mono- And Diesters Of Fatty Acids, Salt, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Vital Wheat Gluten, Whey, Xanthan Gum), White Creme Icing (Sugar, Palm Oil, High Oleic Sunflower And/or Canola Oil, Water, Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Cornstarch, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid, Mono- And Diglycerides, Polysorbate 60, Preservatives [Potassium Sorbate, Sorbic Acid), Salt, Titanium Dioxide [Color]), Water, Eggs, Soybean Oil, Red Colored Nonpareil Candy (Sugar, Corn Starch, Vegetable Oil [Palm, Palm Kernal], Soy Lecithin, Red 40 Lake, Dextrin, Confectioners Glaze, Yellow 6 Lake, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Carnauba Wax), Green Colored Nonpareil Candy (Sugar, Corn Starch, Vegetable Oil (Palm And Palm Kernal), Dextrine, Yellow 5 Lake, Soy Lecithin, Blue 1 Lake, Confectioners Glaze, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Carnauba Wax), Icing Stabilizer (Calcium Carbonate, Sugar, Calcium Sulfate, Agar-agar, Dextrose, Monosodium Phosphate, Carob Bean Gum, Cornstarch), Shortening (Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil), Salt, Vanilla Extract, Sodium Propionate.