Silly question?

asia1967

Quick question: when I measure liquid I use a measuring cup. eg 125ml however I was eating frozen yogurt and it said 125ml of 1/2 cup. now if I weigh 125ml of yogurt it comes out to way more than 1/2 cup. Which way is right. I am a little confused and want to do this right. Thanks in advance.

RodaRose

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=ml+to+oz
Right. According to the calculator above it comes out to 4.22675 US ounces



You are trying to convert from the metric system to the U.S. (imperial system / old U.K. system) and the conversion process is sometimes ugly. The Canadian system uses a mixture of both metric and imperial (old U.K.system)

1 When in doubt, go with the bigger calorie number.
2 Become familiar with the online calculators
3 Eventually, for your repeat foods, you will memorize the conversion
4 Learn to live with a little ambiguity in life
4 Use a scale as often as you can.

FWIW, frozen yogurt should be sold as a solid. So whatever you are looking at is an abomination right anyway. That means that the frozen yogurt should be sold in grams (metric) or ounces (U.S. / imperial).

heybales

Quick question: when I measure liquid I use a measuring cup. eg 125ml however I was eating frozen yogurt and it said 125ml of 1/2 cup. now if I weigh 125ml of yogurt it comes out to way more than 1/2 cup. Which way is right. I am a little confused and want to do this right. Thanks in advance.

A ml of all liquids is not always the same grams. Because you can NOT weigh a volume. mL is volume. grams is mass.
Sometimes the density matches, many times it doesn't.

Yogurt is more dense than water, so 125 ml is going to weigh more than 125 grams.
Ice cream with the added air would be opposite direction, or the combo of dense and airing might bring it right back around - but you'd never know.

Even my milk is more than that.

Did the package as a whole give volume or weight measurement?

asia1967

Hi The package read 1/2 cup (125ml) then proceeded to give the macro breakdown. That is why I was confused liquid is measured in ml/oz but solids are g/mg? This is why I was confused, Kind of still am.:noway:

heybales

Hi The package read 1/2 cup (125ml) then proceeded to give the macro breakdown. That is why I was confused liquid is measured in ml/oz but solids are g/mg? This is why I was confused, Kind of still am.:noway:

Well, not the nutrition label - the package as a whole. Sold by weight or volume on the front of the package?

My normal yogurts and cottage cheese are all sold by weight, ozs and grams. So is ice cream, since the required air can change the volume.
But milk is by volume, ozs and mL.

And the nutrition label is matching in both cases, volume or weight.

But I have seen mismatched stuff too, and it is confusing and stupid to be done, and I'd be curious if really a loophole by government to allow that.

What frozen yogurt, I want to look for it next time I'm getting ice cream tomorrow.

asia1967

I did look at the container. It is a 2L container, no weight. However I did find a chart for nutrition and health for Canadians. and frozen yogurt is 125ml = 125grams. Sounds weird, but that is what it said. The frozen yogurt is a Canadian company called Chapman's.

I also notice that canned pineapple says 125ml for 1 serving. even thou pineapple is a solid. Friggin metric drives me crazy some days.

Please let me know what you come up with. I am curious and would like to know that I am measuring properly.

Thanks in advance.

heybales

I did look at the container. It is a 2L container, no weight. However I did find a chart for nutrition and health for Canadians. and frozen yogurt is 125ml = 125grams. Sounds weird, but that is what it said. The frozen yogurt is a Canadian company called Chapman's.

I also notice that canned pineapple says 125ml for 1 serving. even thou pineapple is a solid. Friggin metric drives me crazy some days.

Please let me know what you come up with. I am curious and would like to know that I am measuring properly.

Thanks in advance.

I guess they make sure that the density is equal to water, so mL and g matches up.

Weigh away!

Except for that pineapple, that's crazy. They probably include you drinking all the juice, if you don't, I'd go for a database entry that is based on weight of the fruit.
If you do drink it, I'd go for dividing up the volume of the container by that serving size of 125 mL, then eat the whole thing at once.