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Measuring

joytar2014
joytar2014 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
How much weight is a cup measure equivalent to please. Do you weight uncooked or cooked foods also. Any advice would be great thank you

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,804 Member
    edited May 2017
    There is no comparison, a cup of one thing will weigh a completely different amount to a cup of something else. Cups are a measure of volume, not a measure of weight. A cup of, say, dessicated coconut will weigh a quarter or less of the weight of a cup of uncooked rice.

    Whether you weigh uncooked or cooked, just choose the right entry in the database. There are generally entries for both cooked and uncooked.
  • cityruss
    cityruss Posts: 2,493 Member
    A cup is a measure of volume, there's no absolute equivalent weight.

    Food can be weighed cooked or uncooked, as long as the correct database entry is chosen. However uncooked is regarded as more accurate. But in the long run and with all the inherent inaccuracy involved it's not something I stress about.
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