• Rooskie91
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    2 months ago

    Carrots have way too much sugar?? To go in a cake?? Wut

    • Etterra
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      2 months ago

      Yeah this threw me too, so I decided to look it up. According to myfooddata.com carrots have 4.7g per 100g (so 4.7% of the amount). That’s enough to maybe be statistically relevant for diabetics eating decent amounts of carrots. I think, I’m not diabetic.

      However I can only presume that this is a recipe for carrot cake. Since it looks like this is Betty Crocker, I looked up their carrot cake recipe and just picked the first one their search returned. It calls for 3 cups of shredded carrots, which is therefore about 10.2g or 2.7 teaspoons in American. For the whole cake. It describes it as 12 servings, so if cut into 12ths a single slice of cake would contain 0.225tsp or .85g of sugar. For comparison, a sugar packet like you add to coffee is 2.8g. So one slice had less sugar than 1/3rd a sugar packet.

      By additional comparison the recipe includes a cream cheese frosting that uses 4 cups of powdered sugar.

      I’m sure the kale cake idiot psychopath didn’t make the frosting.