What is the size of one cup in grams

AbhishekKashyap6847
AbhishekKashyap6847 Posts: 1 Member
edited September 20 in Food and Nutrition
Anyone knows the size of cup in gram ?

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  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 1,803 Member
    Different things weigh more, think about a feather and a rock.

    Do you have a scale that will weigh in grams?

    Some foods on the mfp database have cup and grams in the title. You might look through the food list to see if someone added your food with both cups and grams.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,984 Member
    AbhishekKashyap6847 wrote: »
    Anyone knows the size of cup in gram ?

    240g are usually one US cup

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,984 Member
    rileysowner wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    AbhishekKashyap6847 wrote: »
    Anyone knows the size of cup in gram ?

    240g are usually one US cup

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    That would likely be true for a cup of water. For other items with different density, it would not.
    I stand corrected.


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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,216 Member
    Grams are a weight measure. Cups are a volume measure.

    Essentially, you've asked the equivalent of "how many grams are in a liter". There is no fully reliable answer.

    Some foods are dense, weigh more for a given volume. Some foods are very loose or light, weigh less for a given volume.

    One standard US cup is 236.6 milliliters (rounded to nearest tenth). Conventionally, for US labeling purposes, it usually gets rounded to 240 milliliters.

    Confusingly, US measures for volume and weight both include "ounces". But fluid ounces and ounces of weight don't equate either: They're two different types of units, conventionally called "fluid ounces" for the volume measure, just "ounces" for the weight measure.

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,219 Member
    To confuse the issue further most liquids will work out using both grams or milliliters. For example 500 milliliters of water weights 500 grams, honey is differently because of it's density though and temperature can influence weight as well and why volume differs from summer to winter for petroleum at a gas station for example.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,219 Member
    edited May 25
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Grams are a weight measure. Cups are a volume measure.

    Essentially, you've asked the equivalent of "how many grams are in a liter". There is no fully reliable answer.

    Assuming we take the measurement of a liter to represent a liquid we can reliable count on a liter of water which is 1000 milliliters to weight 1000 grams as an example but other things are not so reliable like oils and alcohols. Weights and measurements are sure a funny business.
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,994 Member
    neanderthin wrote: »
    To confuse the issue further most liquids will work out using both grams or milliliters. For example 500 milliliters of water weights 500 grams, honey is differently because of it's density though and temperature can influence weight as well and why volume differs from summer to winter for petroleum at a gas station for example.

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  • chris_in_cal
    chris_in_cal Posts: 2,520 Member
    edited May 28
    Pray for America!

    6oz steaks that measure 8 inches across, and when diced is 2 cups.

    Weight(mass): is how most of the rest of the world thinks of food.

    Once I got a digital food scale I realized my food logging would be 1000 times easier if all the nutrition data came based on grams.

    I think marketing and manufacturing lobbying play an oversized influence on our U.S. labeling laws. For instance a one dollar bag of chips at a gas station has 2.25 "servings." What? What is a "serving" of junk food? Who cares. What are the facts. These 100g of chips have 500 kcals.


  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,092 Member
    chris_in_cal wrote: »
    Pray for America!

    6oz steaks that measure 8 inches across, and when diced is 2 cups.

    Weight(mass): is how most of the rest of the world thinks of food.

    Once I got a digital food scale I realized my food logging would be 1000 times easier if all the nutrition data came based on grams.

    I think marketing and manufacturing lobbying play an oversized influence on our U.S. labeling laws. For instance a one dollar bag of chips at a gas station has 2.25 "servings." What? What is a "serving" of junk food? Who cares. What are the facts. These 100g of chips have 500 kcals.


    In the U.S. it will typically tell you on the label how many grams are in a serving (labels more typically measure a serving of liquids and semi-liquid foods by volume). It's not a mystery. A few centimeters away from the information that there were 2.25 servings in the bag, it almost certainly defined a serving in grams (probably 28 grams).
  • Hobartlemagne
    Hobartlemagne Posts: 566 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    AbhishekKashyap6847 wrote: »
    Anyone knows the size of cup in gram ?

    240g are usually one US cup

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    Is that cotton balls or marbles?
  • ContraryMaryMary
    ContraryMaryMary Posts: 1,780 Member
    I love the metric system for this reason alone:

    One litre of water weighs one kilogram (at sea level if you want to get technical).

    1000 litres of water weighs one metric tonne and measures one cubic metre.

    It’s beautiful.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,092 Member
    ContraryMaryMary wrote: »
    I love the metric system for this reason alone:

    One litre of water weighs one kilogram (at sea level if you want to get technical).

    1000 litres of water weighs one metric tonne and measures one cubic metre.

    It’s beautiful.

    yes, but volume measures, such as a one liter measure, can be filled with things other than water, and they may not weigh one kilogram.

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