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joytar2014
joytar2014 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
What amount is a cup when measuring plz and are the weights cooked food. Thank you

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  • Jadedinosaur
    Jadedinosaur Posts: 41 Member
    A cup is a measurement tool, I see it a lot in recipes from US websites but you can pick them up in supermarkets here in the UK. You'd be better looking for an entry which has calories per gram and weighing though if it's for solids, more accurate :)
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    It varies depending on the food and how much you can pack in. This is why a food scale is much better than cups. Generally the given information will be for uncooked food.
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    A cup of oil has a much different weight than a cup of rice. That's why using a digital kitchen scale instead of measuring cups is much more accurate. Thankfully most MFP entries have options for 100g servings. I use those ones (If I weigh out a 250g of raw chicken breast for dinner, I look for "boneless skinless chicken breast raw" in the database, find one with 100g option, then input "2.5" for serving value).
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    There is no standard conversion between weight and volume. Different items will take more or less mass to fill the same amount of space. Nutrition labels should also list a weight in grams. Use that.
  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,246 Member
    Use cups/spoons for liquids and scales for solids.
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