How many grams in a cup or bowl?

thomasbenou
thomasbenou Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Exactly how many grams are there in a cup or bowl measure of myfitnesspal?
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  • roamingtiger
    roamingtiger Posts: 747 Member
    edited January 2017
    Everything weighs differently, so a cup of "x" isn't going to weigh the same as a cup of "y".
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,210 Member
    There is really no way to know. It will be different for different foods. That is why you need to use a food scale and weigh your food in grams.
  • AngInCanada
    AngInCanada Posts: 947 Member
    A bowl of rice is going to weight a heck of a lot different than a bowl of rice crispies. It's not an easy answer.
  • amy4selflove
    amy4selflove Posts: 19 Member
    Get an inexpensive food scale and measure your servings. Put the bowl on the scale, tare it to "0" and then add your items to get the reading.
  • CasperNaegle
    CasperNaegle Posts: 936 Member
    Please get a food scale and do not use measuring cups.. You will never get your intake down without a scale.
  • redwngs13
    redwngs13 Posts: 194 Member
    I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but a cup and a gram aren't in the same category. A cup/bowl is a measurement of volume, a gram is a measurement of weight. Going with the trend of the rest of the thread, a food scale is your best friend! Hope that helps!
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    Its kind of like asking how many leaves are on a tree. It depends on other variables so there is not a single correct answer.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    How big of a bowl? And a bowl of what and how full is the bowl? A bowl isn't a unit of measurement and grams doesn't convert to cups or bowls.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    thomasbenou wrote: »
    Exactly how many grams are there in a cup or bowl measure of myfitnesspal?

    That's not a conversion you can do...you can't take a volume measurement and convert it to weight...you need to get a food scale.
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    Get a scale.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    thomasbenou wrote: »
    Exactly how many grams are there in a cup or bowl measure of myfitnesspal?

    That's not a conversion you can do...you can't take a volume measurement and convert it to weight...you need to get a food scale.

    If it's water and you are using the metric system you can. I love the metric system.
  • vikinglander
    vikinglander Posts: 1,547 Member
    SCALE!
  • CafeRacer808
    CafeRacer808 Posts: 2,396 Member
    A cup of ball bearings weighs more than a cup of feathers. Buy a scale.
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    invest in a food scale
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    You have to ignore entries with serving sizes of "bowl" "cup" "slice" etc. Search for your item with 100g tagged on or ounces .. ie "blueberries 100g" "tomato soup oz"
  • successgal1
    successgal1 Posts: 996 Member
    Gram is a measure of weight. Cup is a measure of volume. Bowls are serving dishes and have no reliable standard measure.
  • aflane
    aflane Posts: 625 Member
    Also, not all bowls are the same size, so this question is impossible to answer. I have 3 different sized bowls in my cupboard, salad, soup and desert. Regardless of which one is being used, I zero it out on my scale, and then weigh my food in grams.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    learn to use a food scale.


    properly.
  • savithny
    savithny Posts: 1,200 Member
    One milliliter of water weighs one gram.
    However, anything OTHER than water, you cannot do that.
    One fluid ounce of water weighs one ounce.
    However, that's not true for anything else.

    Like everyone else says: Weigh the food. If you like to use scoops or cups, then learn to zero your scale.
  • Lesscookies1
    Lesscookies1 Posts: 250 Member
    Another vote to get a food scale.
  • davidylin
    davidylin Posts: 228 Member
    A gram is a measure of mass, approximated through the measurement of weight.

    A cup is a measurement of space.

    The answer depends entirely on what you are trying to measure.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    How long is a piece of string?
    How small is a dog?
    What is the collective IQ of a class of 25 third-graders?

    It's going to depend on the individual pieces/elements you're measuring.
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