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    How many grams in a cup or bowl?

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    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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    • 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".
    • Posts: 5,294 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 936 Member
      Please get a food scale and do not use measuring cups.. You will never get your intake down without a scale.
    • 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!
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 4,658 Member
      Get a scale.
    • Posts: 7,166 Member
      cwolfman13 wrote: »
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      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.
    • Posts: 1,547 Member
      SCALE!
    • Posts: 2,396 Member
      A cup of ball bearings weighs more than a cup of feathers. Buy a scale.
    • Posts: 2,228 Member
      invest in a food scale
    • Posts: 3,574 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"
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 8,626 Member
      learn to use a food scale.


      properly.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 250 Member
      Another vote to get a food scale.
    • 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.
    • 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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