grocery store made cake + food log = wrong information

Ok I am sure this has been said before, but the exact post I could not find.

How is it possible CC doesn't have decent calorie information for this item? It is so unbelieveably common. Yellow cake, buttercream type frosting. And most grocery stores do a whipped frosting also.

But just the basic, yellow buttercream.

Calorie County does have one for cake, prepared commercially, but it is very wrong.

Even before inputting basic ingredients for a frosted yellow cake and analyzing - CC says commercially prepared cake has no sugar?

If you take a basic recipe and input and analyze - it is at least double the calories.

Can anything be done about this?

Try 'sponge cake'.... that's the traditional name.

This is slightly better, but still way off, and it doesn't include icing.

My point is, it's such a common item how can we get CC to add something more reasonable?

Here is a very basic yellow cake - no icing

Ingredients added to CC analyze = 354 calories no icing

Basic Buttercream frosting recipe

Ingredients added to CC analyze 148 calories icing only

CC food list sponge cake - 110 calories no icing?

CC food list, yellow cake vanilla frosting commercially prepared 239 calories (and no sugar!)

Do you see the major problem here? The chocolate cake is the same. Either I can not find the proper food item or... CC doesn't have it, at least not correctly. Is there a way through CC to have this fixed?

Unless you're planning to eat this cake in vast amounts on a daily basis (unlikely if you're here because you need to lose weight) you're going to be fine logging the very small portions you indulge in occasionally being 'close enough' to one of the items listed in the database.   CC is a good resource but you occasionally have to make your own adjustments.

When I need to enter an unusual item,  I just go to any restaurant listing on CC and enter something that comes approximately close to what I ate.  In your situation, I would look for a cake listing on CC from one of the restaurant databases.