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    grams in a 1/2 cup of ice cream?

    Posts: 143
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    I have a scale and I measure out all my food but on my ice cream container it lists one serving as 125ml. Do I just use a 1/2 measuring cup and estimate? Or how do I find out what it is in grams?

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    • Posts: 4,301 Member
      Do you measure or weigh your food? If you can weigh it. Ounce to gram conversion on google.
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
      Did you trying doing an internet search for the amount in grams? That would be my suggestion.

      Also what kind of company gives the measurement for a solid in mL? What jerks.
    • Posts: 143
      I do measure and weigh. Okay, I did that and I got 119g... but I've been reading around and some people said that a 1/2 cup of ice cream is 68g, then another said 90g?
    • Posts: 143
      Did you trying doing an internet search for the amount in grams? That would be my suggestion.

      Also what kind of company gives the measurement for a solid in mL? What jerks.
      I think it's a Canadian thing. :/ All of the ice cream here is in mL. I tried doing the search but nothing came up.
    • Posts: 106 Member
      1/2 cup is about 118 grams

      edit: I am a retard. I did this measurement today for spinach. So I think for ice cream the number would be different. Sorry, didn't mean to give you bad info.
    • Posts: 9,562 Member
      Milliliters (volume) do not convert easily to grams (mass).
      Do your best guess. Weighing is best for ice cream.
    • Posts: 39 Member
      Too funny. I did this same research last night. I found that for most ice creams 60-65grams is equal to 1/2 cup. I am in the US and after all my research on how much a 1/2 cup ice cream weighed, found out from a post on here that the container likely has it in grams too. I simply weight out 122 grams (as my Friendly's light Black Raspberry was 61g per serving) on my food scale. Good luck and enjoy
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
      1/2 cup is about 118 grams

      Oh? Because 1/2 cup of my vanilla ice cream is 60g. and 1/2 cup of my Sorbet is 100g. And 1/2 of my gelato is 110g.

      I'm gonna say that kind of thing varies
    • Posts: 47 Member
      In a perfect world, one gram of pure water is equal weight to one ml.. So if you were measuring pure water, you could do that.. With anything else, it has a different density, so the equation is a lot more convoluted as you have to know the relative density and weight.. It's all. To. Hard. If you are going to have ice cream regularly, you could always melt it down, measure it out to 125mls and then weigh that in grams so you know for sure... Me personally! I'd just eat the ice cream and enjoy every mouthful. :)
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
      Milliliters (volume) do not convert easily to grams (mass).
      Do your best guess. Weighing is best for ice cream.

      Also this.

      What brand is it? Maybe an not Canadian version is in the database?
    • Posts: 2,836 Member
      I imagine that mass of ice cream could vary greatly depending on brand. Just weigh what you want and log according the weight listed on the label.
    • Posts: 4,301 Member
      I do measure and weigh. Okay, I did that and I got 119g... but I've been reading around and some people said that a 1/2 cup of ice cream is 68g, then another said 90g?

      Okay, I like you. List what you weighed and move on; oh and enjoy the ice cream!
    • Posts: 143
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      Also this.

      What brand is it? Maybe an not Canadian version is in the database?
      It's Breyer's, but I think that's an exclusively Canadian one...
    • Posts: 106 Member
      I noticed that my digital scale has a unit for mL but I never use it. I have also noticed, that whatever weight in grams it is usually equal in mL. Not sure how accurate this is...
    • Posts: 143
      I noticed that my digital scale has a unit for mL but I never use it. I have also noticed, that whatever weight in grams it is usually equal in mL. Not sure how accurate this is...
      I think grams only equal mL exactly if it's a liquid.
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
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      It's Breyer's, but I think that's an exclusively Canadian one...

      Can you tell us what kind? Worst that happens is you're right and it's only in Canada and you have to guess/do a really confusing formula. Best case it's not exclusive.
    • Posts: 2,290 Member
      I imagine that mass of ice cream could vary greatly depending on brand. Just weigh what you want and log according the weight listed on the label.

      What they said. Every brand of ice cream is going to have various gram amounts.
    • Posts: 143
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      Can you tell us what kind? Worst that happens is you're right and it's only in Canada and you have to guess/do a really confusing formula. Best case it's not exclusive.
      Chocolate chip cookie dough.
      Just did some intense googling and found out it's 68g. Oh my gosh, this is complicated just for icecream- but totally worth it. Thanks everyone :)
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      Yes, 68g. I bought that one once :p

      But man they are jerks in Canada!
    • Posts: 24,208 Member
      There are 236 ml in a cup.
      So 118 ml in a scoop (1/2 cup)

      Most of the world works in ml units for ice cream. It's not like Canada is special, oh?
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
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      Chocolate chip cookie dough.
      Just did some intense googling and found out it's 68g. Oh my gosh, this is complicated just for icecream- but totally worth it. Thanks everyone :)

      Awesome. I imagine you're pleased you didn't go with 118g in the end, lol
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
      There are 236 ml in a cup.
      So 118 ml in a scoop (1/2 cup)

      Most of the world works in ml units for ice cream. It's not like Canada is special, oh?

      How does measure a solid in mL? Does most of the world melt it down first or do they have special 'ice cream' settings on their scale?
    • Posts: 24,208 Member
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      How does measure a solid in mL? Does most of the world melt it down first or do they have special 'ice cream' settings on their scale?

      Grams --> cups --> mls

      use a scoop or often labels have a mixed unit with g and ml or I google it.
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
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      Grams --> cups --> mls

      use a scoop or often labels have a mixed unit.
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      How to Convert Milliliters to Grams if Measuring Anything Other than water
      If you are measuring a substance other than pure water, you have to account for the substance's density.

      Determine the substance's density. Density is mass per unit volume. Therefore, density measures the compactness of a substance [3]. Often your question will provide you with the density. Other times you may need to look up the density on a chart or table. Make sure your density units are in g/ml. If not convert them.
      The density of water is 1 g/ml. Therefore if your substance's density is higher than 1 g/ml then your substance is more dense than water. If your substance's density is less than 1 g/ml, then your substance's density is less than water.
      For example, if I was trying to convert 10 mls of ethanol to grams. I would look up the density of ethanol, and find it is 789.00 kg/m³. I would then need to convert kg/m³ to g/ml. I know that kg/m³ = 1,000g/100x100x100cm³ = 0.001g/cm³ = .0001g/ml. Knowing this, I would multiply 789.00 kg/m³ by 0.001g/ml and get 0.789 g/ml, as the density of ethanol.

      Multiply mls by density. Multiply the mls of your substance by its density in g/ml. The ml units will cancel, and you will be left with grams and your answer.
      For example if I was trying to convert 10 mls of ethanol to grams. I would multiply 10 mls by 0.789 g/ml, and get 7.89 grams. I now know that 10 mls of ethanol weighs 7.89 grams.
      Note that ethanol weighs less than the same volume of water. Remember, 10 mls of water is equal to 10 grams of water. But here we found that 10 mls of ethanol only weighs 7.89 grams. This is because ethanol is less dense than water.
      Conversely, if your substance was more dense than water, its density was greater than 1, your substance would weigh more than the same volume of pure water.


      So. Yeah. Grams->cups->mLs.

      Seems simple. :indifferent:


      I'd imagine most places have a mixed label, which makes sense I guess, but the OP's label clearly didn't. Using the Grams-cup-mL method you suggested she would have eaten 118g of ice cream instead of 60someoddgrams.
    • Posts: 124 Member
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      How does measure a solid in mL? Does most of the world melt it down first or do they have special 'ice cream' settings on their scale?
      I've always just scooped it with a measuring cup. It would never occur to me to weigh ice cream...
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      I've always just scooped it with a measuring cup. It would never occur to me to weigh ice cream...


      I'd be willing to bed money the amount your eating is what you think it is. I can fit 100g of ice cream into a half cup, for example, but according to the carton 60g is a half box.


      Not that it matters. I eat whatever amount pleases my eyes/stomach but for people who care about that kind of thing it could be a issue.
    • Posts: 24,208 Member
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      Fixed that for you.

      /is Canadian

      Tabernacle et Merci. Forgetting the local lingo.
    • Posts: 27,167 Member
      Yes, 68g. I bought that one once :p

      But man they are jerks in Canada!

      Thanks Harper.
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