USDA ingredient referenceUpdated August 22, 2026

Unfrosted white cake or cupcake in 11 Feast-indexed USDA foods

Calories, portions and nutrition →Cake or cupcake, white, no icing

Within Feast’s 3,850-record USDA FNDDS reference corpus, “Unfrosted white cake or cupcake” appears as a formulation input in 11 finished-food records. Their calories and nutrients describe those complete foods, not the input label by itself. Use the catalog to choose the closest finished food and open its exact FoodData Central citation.

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Exact nutrition reference, complete food catalog and source methodology

For calories, macros, portions, and household measures, use Cake or cupcake, white, no icing, the exact cited complete FNDDS profile. This page answers the separate formulation question: where USDA lists input code 53121275 across Feast’s reference corpus.

What the code means

One exact source label across 11 complete records.

Every occurrence collected here uses ingredient code 53121275 and the source description “Cake or cupcake, white, no icing.” The code is preserved exactly as it appears in the FNDDS input-food rows. It is not a FoodData Central FDC ID, so this page does not invent a standalone ingredient-record URL.

The strongest concentrations of linked records are currently Cakes and pies (11). These are category counts within Feast’s selected 3,850-record corpus. They do not estimate how often the ingredient is eaten, how common it is in recipes generally, or its prevalence across every FNDDS release.

Collection-level interpretation

Grounded ways to understand this source label

These summaries describe the linked FNDDS records in this exact corpus. They do not estimate consumer frequency, market share, or the composition of a meal.

Typical listed-weight range

50%–57.5%

The middle half of linked records spans 7.5 percentage points from the 25th to the 75th percentile. This is more resistant to a single extreme record than the full minimum-to-maximum range.

Largest linked category

Cakes and pies

11 of 11 linked records (100%) sit in this USDA category. The remainder span 0 other categories.

Most populated share band

30% to under 60%

8 records (73%) fall in this band after repeated rows for code 53121275 are combined within each food.

Most frequent eligible co-input

Frostings, vanilla, creamy, ready-to-eat

It appears alongside code 53121275 in 5 linked records (45%). Co-occurrence describes database structure, not a required recipe.

Where USDA uses this input

Linked records by source-food category

Each record is counted once even if ingredient code 53121275 appears on more than one input row inside that formulation. The category grouping describes the complete linked foods, not a culinary rule about the ingredient.

USDA survey-food categories

Source-formulation evidence

How the share of listed input weight changes

Repeated rows for code 53121275 inside one food are combined before the percentage is calculated. The denominator is the sum of all positive-weight inputs listed for that USDA formulation.

All linked records, not just the extremes

Where the listed-weight shares fall

Each bar counts complete food records after repeated rows for ingredient code 53121275 have been combined.

Under 1%0 records
0 of 11
1% to under 5%0 records
0 of 11
5% to under 15%0 records
0 of 11
15% to under 30%0 records
0 of 11
30% to under 60%8 records
8 of 11
60% to 100%3 records
3 of 11

The role changes by food type

Median listed share in the largest USDA categories

Category medians summarize source-formulation shares, not nutrient content or consumption frequency.

Listed-weight share distribution across the largest complete-food categories
Complete-food category	Records	Median	Middle 50%	Observed span
Cakes and pies	11	55%	50%–57.5%	30%–65%

What the spread can tell you

In this collection, “Cake or cupcake, white, no icing” ranges from 30% to 65% of listed source-input weight, with a median of 55%. That variation can help distinguish a food where the input is a small supporting component from a record where it makes up much more of the standardized source formulation.

The spread remains descriptive. It does not show uncertainty around a single recipe, and a high source-weight share does not automatically mean the food supplies more of any particular nutrient. To compare nutrients, use the complete linked records below.

Verified consumer reference

Household measures and per-100-gram nutrition for Cake or cupcake, white, no icing

The values here come from Cake or cupcake, white, no icing, the exact complete FNDDS food cited as USDA FoodData Central record 2707895. Household totals are calculated only from gram weights USDA lists for that same record.

They are not an average of this ingredient collection, and they do not transfer automatically to a different product, recipe, preparation, or portion.

The complete FNDDS record's food code exactly matches source-input code 53121275.

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Nutrient span across the linked foods

Every value in this table describes an entire USDA survey-food record per 100 grams. The values are not the nutrient content of ingredient code 53121275, and differences cannot be attributed to this one input.

Nutrient span across complete food records linked to this source ingredient code
Whole-record nutrient	Observed minimum	Middle 50%	Median	Observed maximum	Linked records
Caloriesper 100 g of the complete food	241 kcal	306–351 kcal	345 kcal	368 kcal	11
Proteinper 100 g of the complete food	2.2 g	2.4–3.1 g	2.6 g	3.8 g	11
Carbohydrateper 100 g of the complete food	30 g	44.7–53.3 g	51.9 g	55 g	11
Total fatper 100 g of the complete food	10.4 g	13.2–15.1 g	14.3 g	17 g	11
Dietary fiberper 100 g of the complete food	0.4 g	0.4–0.9 g	0.7 g	1.3 g	11
Sodiumper 100 g of the complete food	214 mg	278–313 mg	305 mg	325 mg	11

The minimum and maximum preserve the complete observed span. The median is the middle linked-record value, not a prediction for a meal and not an ingredient-specific nutrient estimate.

Complete linked catalog

All 11 Feast-indexed food records that list code 53121275

This is the complete qualifying-corpus catalog, not a hand-picked sample. Search by food name or USDA category, then open a profile for household portions, Feast’s 21-nutrient panel, formulation details, and its exact FDC citation.

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11 records shown

Complete USDA food-record catalog linked to this source ingredient code
Linked USDA food record	USDA category	Formulation	Listed input weight	Weight share	Calories	Protein	Sodium	Citation
Cake or cupcake, coconut	Cakes and pies	3 input rows	50 g	50%	368 kcal	2.5 g	311 mg	FDC 2707860 ↗
Cake or cupcake, lemon	Cakes and pies	3 input rows	55 g	55%	339 kcal	2.4 g	304 mg	FDC 2707879 ↗
Cake or cupcake, marble	Cakes and pies	3 input rows	30 g	30%	347 kcal	3.1 g	305 mg	FDC 2707880 ↗
Cake or cupcake, strawberry	Cakes and pies	3 input rows	50 g	50%	326 kcal	2.2 g	283 mg	FDC 2707887 ↗
Cake or cupcake, white with chocolate icing, bakery	Cakes and pies	2 input rows	55 g	55%	349 kcal	2.9 g	313 mg	FDC 2707893 ↗
Cake or cupcake, white with chocolate icing, from mix	Cakes and pies	2 input rows	60 g	60%	345 kcal	3.1 g	324 mg	FDC 2707894 ↗
Cake or cupcake, white with white icing, bakery	Cakes and pies	2 input rows	55 g	55%	359 kcal	2.4 g	313 mg	FDC 2707891 ↗
Cake or cupcake, white with white icing, from mix	Cakes and pies	2 input rows	60 g	60%	353 kcal	2.6 g	325 mg	FDC 2707892 ↗
Cake, cream	Cakes and pies	2 input rows	55 g	55%	286 kcal	3.8 g	234 mg	FDC 2707872 ↗
Cake, pineapple, upside down	Cakes and pies	5 input rows	50 g	50%	273 kcal	2.4 g	214 mg	FDC 2707890 ↗
Cake, torte	Cakes and pies	4 input rows	65 g	65%	241 kcal	3.3 g	273 mg	FDC 2707888 ↗

Decision support from the exact records on this page

Turn source data into a better next decision

These conclusions and reading paths are computed from 10 exact records behind Cake or cupcake, white, no icing (USDA input 53121275). Links are chosen by record identity, controlled contrast, formulation input, nutrient spread, or serving context—not by loose keyword similarity.

Equal-weight result

Cake or cupcake, coconut is higher in dietary fiber per 100 g

Cake or cupcake, coconut reports 1.3 g versus 0.4 g for Cake or cupcake, lemon: a 0.9 g difference when both are normalized to 100 g.

Inspect the underlying evidence

The denominator changes the answer

Cake or cupcake, strawberry is denser; Cake, cream is higher in its source amount

Cake or cupcake, strawberry reports 326 kcal per 100 g and 571 kcal in USDA source amount (175 g). Cake, cream reports a lower 286 kcal per 100 g but a higher 572 kcal in USDA source amount (200 g).

Record identity is part of the estimate

Distinguish “Cake, cream” from “Cake or cupcake, white, no icing”

These are separate USDA records with separate formulations or survey descriptions. Match preparation, additions, and the named household amount before borrowing either record’s nutrients.

Inspect the underlying evidence

Contextual knowledge graph

Follow the relationship that matches your question

For Cake or cupcake, white, no icing (USDA input 53121275), each path states why the destination belongs here, so you can distinguish a true evidentiary connection from a merely similar label.

Best next guide for this exact record Cake or cupcake

Cake or cupcake, coconut and Cake or cupcake, lemon are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path Best next guide for this exact record Cake

Cake, cream and Cake, torte are explicitly linked in this guide, which separates direct name matches from contextual variants.

Follow this evidence path 10 context records in this source topic Cakes and pies

Cake, cream and Cake or cupcake, coconut belong to this USDA source-category collection. Its displayed ranges and complete exact-record catalog provide the peer set for a manual comparison; the destination does not preselect this page’s record.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Frostings, chocolate, creamy, ready-to-eat

USDA input 19226 appears in 3 of 10 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 40–45 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path A formulation detail that separates records Cream, whipped, cream topping, pressurized

USDA input 1054 appears in 2 of 10 context records; its summed listed input weight spans 9–45 g across those source formulations. These are source-formulation input weights, not plated or serving weights. Follow the code to inspect every represented occurrence.

Follow this evidence path Test a nearby record choice Cake or cupcake, chocolate with chocolate icing, from mix vs Cake or cupcake, white with chocolate icing, from mix

Cake or cupcake, white with chocolate icing, from mix is held as one side of the comparison. The explicit record-description contrast is Dietary fiber: 1.7 versus 0.7 g per 100 g; it is a selection cue, not evidence of cause.

Follow this evidence path Put the observed spread in corpus context Dietary fiber: density and serving context

In this page’s records, dietary fiber runs from 0.4 g in Cake or cupcake, lemon to 1.3 g in Cake or cupcake, coconut, all per 100 g.

Follow this evidence path

Method and provenance

How this ingredient-centered page was calculated

Feast begins with its pinned 3,850-record USDA FoodData Central Survey Foods reference corpus for FNDDS 2021–2023. Each exact food profile retains its FDC identifier, source-food description, nutrient values, household measures, and positive-weight input-food rows. This page groups those input rows by the exact ingredient code 53121275; it does not merge similar-looking ingredient names or infer synonyms.

The distinct-record count deduplicates by FDC food record. When the same code is listed more than once inside one source formulation, its input weights are added before the listed-weight share is calculated. Category counts also count each food once. The 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile use the sorted one-share-per-food values with linear interpolation between adjacent ranks when a percentile falls between two records.

USDA’s current FNDDS documentation explains that many nutrient profiles are generated with calculation recipes designed to represent multiple variants, and that their input codes are not necessarily the exact ingredients in a retail product or an ingredient declaration. It also documents moisture and nutrient-retention adjustments. Feast therefore treats these rows as transparent source-calculation evidence—not as a reverse-engineered recipe.

The complete-food nutrient table uses each linked record’s available published per-100-gram values so the denominator remains consistent; its middle-50% ranges use the same interpolated percentile method. It is presented for record selection and comparison only. No nutrient value is reassigned to the ingredient, no causal effect is inferred, and no “healthy” score is manufactured from the collection.

How to apply the evidence to a meal

Use the ingredient as a discovery clue. Compare the linked record names, food categories, preparation wording, source formulation, and portion measures. If a close record exists, its complete profile can provide a defensible reference estimate. If the meal differs materially in cooking fat, sauce, ingredient ratios, or portion size, keep looking or use recipe weights, a package label, or an editable photo estimate instead.

These pages are educational source indexes. They do not provide medical advice, personalized nutrient targets, food-safety guidance, or a recipe. If a clinician has given you individualized dietary instructions, follow that guidance and use the most specific current source available for the food you actually consumed.