What is 1 cup?

tobieaina
tobieaina Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I'm struggling to ensure that I'm correctly logging food quantities. Could someone give a tough indication of what 1 cup of curry would be in grams and or millilitres?

Thank you so much

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  • chocolate_owl
    chocolate_owl Posts: 1,695 Member
    A cup is a measure of volume. It's about 237 ml.
  • onepebble
    onepebble Posts: 22 Member
    chocolate_owl wrote: »
    A cup is a measure of volume. It's about 237 ml.

    Or 250ml if you are in Australia.
    Check the dropdown quantity options for grams if it’s not a liquid, that’s going to be most accurate for most things.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Most restaurant servings are going to be a lot bigger than what you would think.

    If you made it at home, enter it as a Recipe and figure the portions that way.

    If you got it at a restaurant...you'll have to make a guess based on your own personal knowledge of measurements.


    That's one of the really great things about cooking and measuring with a food scale. I can pretty much deconstruct any food at a restaurant and feel reasonably confident I am within 300 calories - which is close enough!
  • Redordeadhead
    Redordeadhead Posts: 1,188 Member
    Agree with the above. Also, dont measure any solids in millilitres, liquids only.
  • nanastaci2020
    nanastaci2020 Posts: 1,072 Member
    If you're making it at home: the MFP recipe builder is awesome. Enter your ingredients into the recipe. Weigh the final dish before taking any out. To do that it may be helpful to note the weight of the dish.

    Example lets say I'm making chili, and my pot weighs 1500g and the full pot of cooked chili weighs 5000g. Since 5000g-1500g = 3500g, which is the weight of the chili, I make the recipe 3500 'servings'. Then when I put chili on my plate for dinner, perhaps 425g, that is what I log. Then if I have leftovers for lunch and have 345g, that is what I log for lunch.

    Labels that give nutrition per 'cup' for solid food will usually also have it in grams. Like on a label for bread crumbs, it may say 1 serving = 1/4 cup (28g) 110 calories. So then I'd ignore the cup detail, and focus on the weight in grams.
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