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    How much water is equivalent to a 'cup' ?

    Posts: 1 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    Hi can anyone help me with this question please? How much water do they measure as being in one 'cup' ? Thank you

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    • Posts: 12,950 Member
      depends, dry cup or wet cup?

      There's also an imperial cup used to create the imperial pint.
    • Posts: 3,440 Member
      8 ounces
    • Posts: 9,487 Member
      Technically 8 ounces - but as long as you're keeping hydrated and your pee is almost clear you're good to go.
    • Posts: 600 Member
      edited January 2015
      A cup of water in the US is typically 8oz of water, or 236ml or 0.24 liters.

      The 8 'glass' goal is around 1.9 liters total.
    • Posts: 974 Member
      dbmata wrote: »
      depends, dry cup or wet cup?

      There's also an imperial cup used to create the imperial pint.


      hahahahahahaha! oh you!

    • Posts: 36 Member
      mollymorgan7 wrote: »
      Hi can anyone help me with this question please? How much water do they measure as being in one 'cup' ? Thank you

    • Posts: 36 Member
      8 ounces, typically, Molly...
    • Posts: 16,049 Member
      250ml is what I use to measure a cup.
    • Posts: 6,993 Member
      You're kidding, right?

    • Posts: 16 Member
      But what if she's asking about a cup of heavy water? Diet water? Big differences here, folks.
    • Posts: 600 Member
      47Jacqueline wrote: »
      You're kidding, right?

      People outside of the US don't use 'cups' as a form of measurement, this question comes up every now and then.
    • Posts: 1,324 Member
      I've never understood why cookbooks always use 250ml as equivalent to a cup, when 240 is divisible by 8 and closer to the actual volume anyway (236). It makes no sense; no one uses 1/5 of a cup, why round it to such an inconvenient number?


      Maybe that's why I don't cook.


      No, wait, it's because I'm lazy.
    • Posts: 16,049 Member
      sheepotato wrote: »
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      People outside of the US don't use 'cups' as a form of measurement, this question comes up every now and then.

      I'm in Australia and regularly use cups as measurements

    • Posts: 12,950 Member
      Imperial cups?
    • Posts: 16,049 Member
      Metric..
    • Posts: 12,950 Member
      a metric cup. THE FOURTH CUP TYPE!
    • Posts: 600 Member
      edited January 2015
      Wow okay... (I had to know what the third cup was, if metric was the fourth all I could find was a Japanese cup) I'm going to assume the OP meant what sort of 'cup' is MFP going by, and it's the US customary cup. Just count a standard glass (whatever it's measured in) as a cup of water.

      U.S. customary cup = 236ml
      Imperial cup= 284ml
      Australian metric cup = 250ml
      Japanese cup = 200ml
      A 'legal' US cup =240 ml (whatever legal means)
    • Posts: 56,142 Member
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    • Posts: 600 Member
      sjohnny wrote: »
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      You may want to stop drinking water out of that kind of cup.
    • Posts: 1
      I've been taking it literally: 8 ounces. It's frustrating, though, because my cup at work is 22 ounces. Not quite 3 "cups", but way more than 2. I wish MFP would measure water in ounces like Fitbit does
    • Posts: 11,502 Member
      I prefer a B cup or C cup, but I have heard that a lot of people prefer D cup or larger.
    • Posts: 600 Member
      karey1980 wrote: »
      I've been taking it literally: 8 ounces. It's frustrating, though, because my cup at work is 22 ounces. Not quite 3 "cups", but way more than 2. I wish MFP would measure water in ounces like Fitbit does

      Me too, I usually drink out of a 20oz or 16.9oz bottle.

    • Posts: 56,142 Member
      karey1980 wrote: »
      I've been taking it literally: 8 ounces. It's frustrating, though, because my cup at work is 22 ounces. Not quite 3 "cups", but way more than 2. I wish MFP would measure water in ounces like Fitbit does

      As my hydration specialist Deependatha Poole says "you *may* be overthinking it."
    • Posts: 809 Member
      8 ounces.
    • Posts: 114 Member
      You can fill a DD cup with more water than in an A cup.
    • Posts: 18,771 Member
      sheepotato wrote: »
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      You may want to stop drinking water out of that kind of cup.

      Agreed, there's holes in it. That's annoying.
    • Posts: 11,502 Member
      yuuen wrote: »
      You can fill a DD cup with more water than in an A cup.

      Yes... usually the A cups don't have much (or any) water, while DD cups are usually filled with saline, I mean water.
    • Posts: 56,142 Member
      yuuen wrote: »
      You can fill a DD cup with more water than in an A cup.

      You're doing it wrong. That's not what those cups are for.
    • Posts: 709 Member
      i do 8 oz. as my cups of water to drink. different if measuring for baking, etc. depending on the recipe.
    • Posts: 484 Member
      Which weighs more, a cup of gold or a cup of feathers?
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