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How much water is equivalent to a 'cup' ?

mollymorgan7
mollymorgan7 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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  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    depends, dry cup or wet cup?

    There's also an imperial cup used to create the imperial pint.
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    8 ounces
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 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.
  • sheepotato
    sheepotato 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.
  • sjaplo
    sjaplo 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!

  • petee5854
    petee5854 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

  • petee5854
    petee5854 Posts: 36 Member
    8 ounces, typically, Molly...
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    250ml is what I use to measure a cup.
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    You're kidding, right?

  • AdorkableMe2015
    AdorkableMe2015 Posts: 16 Member
    But what if she's asking about a cup of heavy water? Diet water? Big differences here, folks.
  • sheepotato
    sheepotato 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.
  • MakePeasNotWar
    MakePeasNotWar 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.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    sheepotato wrote: »
    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.

    I'm in Australia and regularly use cups as measurements

  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Imperial cups?
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Metric..
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    a metric cup. THE FOURTH CUP TYPE!
  • sheepotato
    sheepotato 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)
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
    protective_cup.jpg
  • sheepotato
    sheepotato Posts: 600 Member
    sjohnny wrote: »
    protective_cup.jpg

    You may want to stop drinking water out of that kind of cup.
  • karey1980
    karey1980 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
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner 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.
  • sheepotato
    sheepotato 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.

  • sjohnny
    sjohnny 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."
  • njitaliana
    njitaliana Posts: 809 Member
    8 ounces.
  • yuuen
    yuuen Posts: 114 Member
    You can fill a DD cup with more water than in an A cup.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    sheepotato wrote: »
    sjohnny wrote: »
    protective_cup.jpg

    You may want to stop drinking water out of that kind of cup.

    Agreed, there's holes in it. That's annoying.
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner 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.
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny 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.
  • La5Vega5Girl
    La5Vega5Girl Posts: 709 Member
    i do 8 oz. as my cups of water to drink. different if measuring for baking, etc. depending on the recipe.
  • SrJoben
    SrJoben Posts: 484 Member
    Which weighs more, a cup of gold or a cup of feathers?
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