Bag of cheese says 1/4 cup = 28g?

soccerkon26
soccerkon26 Posts: 596 Member
edited November 16 in Food and Nutrition
I have a bag of shredded cheese and it says that one serving is 1/2 cup (28grams). But measuring it, 28 grams was about 1/2 cup! Is the grams measurement or cup measurement correct?

Seems like the package is way off.

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  • soccerkon26
    soccerkon26 Posts: 596 Member
    amyrebeccah wrote: »
    Welcome to the world of weighing--the weight is more accurate.

    Then this is AWESOME.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    yep,with most things packaging is off, even fruit if its the same size the weight can be different.
  • stellet_licht
    stellet_licht Posts: 33 Member
    I'd always stick with weight measurements vs. volume. And 1/2 cup serving seems big - seems like they have a tendency to go on the smaller side so 1/4 seems like the most they'd ever say was a single serving. Just my 2 cents. :)
  • jddnw
    jddnw Posts: 319 Member
    edited April 2015
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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,229 Member
    Yup, 28g could be half a cup, or I bet if I tried hard I could jam 50g into a quarter of a cup. Weighing is key for solids! Sometimes you will find you've overestimated, sometimes under.
  • eeeekie
    eeeekie Posts: 1,011 Member
    That's why if you bake you should always weigh! LOL Better results.

    Weighing is way more accurate
  • williams969
    williams969 Posts: 2,528 Member
    MOAR CHEESE!!!! This is a very good (positive) example of why weighing food is good. Mostly, we hear about the "horrors" of an actual cereal or peanut butter serving be much smaller than anticipated. But then, there are gems like this. I also like that what I *thought* was a serving of my favorite deli meat (2 slices) is really 4 slices (2oz. = 2 slices is the serving). Deli person really likes to slice it thin I guess. More meat for me!
  • kampshoff
    kampshoff Posts: 133 Member
    Weigh solids and measure liquids by volume. Yes, MOAR CHEESE!
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    soccerkon26 wrote: »
    amyrebeccah wrote: »
    Welcome to the world of weighing--the weight is more accurate.

    Then this is AWESOME.

    This time.

    Next time it'll work against you the same way.

    Weigh weigh weigh! :smile:
  • norie92
    norie92 Posts: 115 Member
    edited April 2015
    soccerkon26 wrote: »
    one serving is 1/2 cup (28grams). But measuring it, 28 grams was about 1/2 cup!

    Wait, what?
  • soccerkon26
    soccerkon26 Posts: 596 Member
    I meant 1/4 cup. Looks like everyone knew what I mean anyway!
  • norie92
    norie92 Posts: 115 Member
    Oh ok, I was really confused lol. Well, now I'm going to have to unlazy and use my scale for everything ugh. :(
  • stephanieluvspb
    stephanieluvspb Posts: 997 Member
    More cheese=win! :)
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