What is cake mix made of?
Cake mix takes 9 things directly, among them flour, sugar, baking soda, table salt, vegetable oil and cocoa powder. Trace them back and you pass 38 made things on the way to 20 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
- Flourat Weigh the dry ingredients
- Sugarat Weigh the dry ingredients
- Baking sodaat Weigh the dry ingredients
- Table saltat Weigh the dry ingredients
- Vegetable oilat Work in the shortening
- Cocoa powderat Blend until even
- Cardboardat Pack pre-measured boxes
- Waterat Add liquid and bake
- Eggsat Add liquid and bake
From the ground: 20 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Eggs goes straight in
- Wheat through flour
- Sugarcane through sugar
- Sugar beet through sugar
- Trona through baking soda
- Limestone through baking soda
- Rock salt through table salt
- Seawater through table salt
- Soybeans through vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through vegetable oil
- Clay through vegetable oil
- Cocoa beans through cocoa powder
- Air through flour, vitamin c tablet
- Natural gas through baking soda, carbon dioxide
- Corn through baking soda, carbon dioxide
- Crude oil through vegetable oil, hexane
- Timber through cardboard, wood pulp
- Sulfur through cardboard, adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Coal through cardboard, adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 31 things
Chemicals and fuels 22
QuicklimeAmmoniaSoda ashCarbon dioxideHexaneAdhesiveHydrogenCaustic sodaOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideParaffin waxEthylenePropyleneSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineNitric acidNaphthaBenzeneToluene