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.
Potato (Dry), Salt, Maltodextrin, Vegetable Shortening Powder (Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Lactose, Sodium Caseinate, Dipotassium Phosphate), Contains 2% Or Less Of: Sour Cream Powder [Sour Cream (Cream, Nonfat Milk, Cultures), Culture Nonfat Milk, Citric Acid And Tocopherols And Ascorbyl Palmitate (To Help Protect Flavor)], Enzyme Modified Milk, Imitation Bacon [Textured Vegetable Protein (Soy Flour, Caramel Color, Red 3), Soybean Oil, Water, Salt, Artificial Flavoring (Hydrolyzed Corn-soy-wheat Protein, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean/cottonseed Oils, Thiamine Hydrochloride, Dextrose, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Artificial Flavor), Sugar, Natural Smoke Flavors, Caramel Color, Corn Syrup, Maple Syrup], Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Soybean, Cottonseed), Artificial Flavor, Vegetable Mono And Diglycerides, Artificial Color, Spice And Coloring, Onion, Bacon Type Flavor, Whey, Cheddar Cheese And Blue Cheese Powder (Cultured Milk, Salt, Enzymes), Reduced Lactose Whey, Maltodextrin, Canola Oil, Salt; Disodium Phosphate, Nonfat Milk, Citric Acid, Artificial Color (Yellow 5 And Yellow 6), Chives, Canola Oil (Preserved With Citric Acid And Bht), Lactic Acid, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Citric Acid, Freshness Preserved With Sodium Bisulfite, Bha, Bht.