weight of 1 cup

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maxinemoore67
maxinemoore67 Posts: 11 Member
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How much in grams is one cup

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  • CherokeeBabe
    CherokeeBabe Posts: 1,704 Member
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    google is your friend :) It has great conversion tools to help with things like double-checking grams/ounces/cups/quarts etc.
  • myfatass78
    myfatass78 Posts: 411 Member
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    A Cup is a measurement of an amount, not weight. What do you want to put in the cup ? For example, peanuts in a cup will weigh different to yogurt in a cup.
  • maxinemoore67
    maxinemoore67 Posts: 11 Member
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    Things on recipes like one cup of chilli say. Do you use a small tea cup?
  • dutchandkiwi
    dutchandkiwi Posts: 1,389 Member
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    cups are a measurement of volume not of weight. So the number of grams depends on the volumetric mass density of the food you measure as a cup
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
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    maxinemoore67 wrote: »
    Things on recipes like one cup of chilli say. Do you use a small tea cup?

    No. Try to ignore things in the data base like chili as it can have many types of ingredients depending on who made it. If you have to, make a wild guestimate and move on to something else.

    Cups are a measure of volume and have nothing to do with grams although in the U.S. we ofter causally refer to a cup as 8 ounces.

    1 Cup [US] = 236.588237 Milliliters
    1 Cup [Metric] = 250 Milliliters
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
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    Please see these articles on Wikipedia.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_cup
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)
  • lulucitron
    lulucitron Posts: 366 Member
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    http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Cup-to-Gram-Conversions
  • lulucitron
    lulucitron Posts: 366 Member
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    http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Cup-to-Gram-Conversions
  • lulucitron
    lulucitron Posts: 366 Member
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    http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Cup-to-Gram-Conversions
  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
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    The product label should have the weight as well as the volume. Serving size: 1 cup (100 grams) or something like that.

    1 cup of raw spinach weighs wayyyy less than 1 cup of chili. 1 cup is just a volume measure and should only be used to measure liquids.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
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    One cup of muscle weighs more than one cup of fat, you know.

    Sorry, couldn't resist!

    As others have said, it depends. If you only know the volume you are probably better off using that for now but consider getting a scale. If your problem is you know the grams but your entry has cups, you can probably find a better entry that has the grams option.

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