Confused with cup measurements- Help!

DianaGabriela2013

I have been weighing my food. But many of the food items listed in MyFit Pal is in cups.
For example 1 cup chicken stir fry.. is this 1 cup as in 8oz weight or one cup as in all you can fit in one physical cup?
Should I be weighing 8 oz to use the "1 cup" measurement.
Or filling up one cup?

Ready2Rock206

Don't use bad entries. Skip over the ones that say cups. Find ones that are in grams. If you made the chicken stir fry then use the recipe builder rather than using someone else's entry where you have no idea what they even put in it.

earlnabby

DianaGabriela2013 wrote: »

I have been weighing my food. But many of the food items listed in MyFit Pal is in cups.
For example 1 cup chicken stir fry.. is this 1 cup as in 8oz weight or one cup as in all you can fit in one physical cup?
Should I be weighing 8 oz to use the "1 cup" measurement.
Or filling up one cup?

Search for an entry that uses weight instead of cups. If you have the nutrition information available on the package, create your own entry using weight.

HeidiCooksSupper

"1 cup" in American parlance is 8 fluid ounces or 237 ml. It has no standard weight.

Americans use the term ounces to have two different meanings, volume for wet ingredients but weight for dry ingredients.

Many of us have learned the phrase "A pint's a pound the world around." This refers to the fact that a pint (16 fluid ounces) of water weighs approximately a pound (16 ounces in weight). In cooking, this is assumed to be accurate enough for many wet ingredients; a pound of butter is generally assumed to equal two cups of butter. It is not accurate at all for other ingredients. For example, blueberries, which are traditionally sold by the volumetric pint weigh approximately 12 ounces depending on the size of the berries.

malibu927

Is this stir fry you made? If so, you should be using the recipe builder where you can put in the exact weights of the ingredients you used and then figure out the calories per serving.