How many grams in a cup?

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The number of grams in a cup depends upon the ingredients in a cup.

  • 1 cup butter = 227 g
  • 1 cup of “dry goods” = 128 g
  • 1 cup of flour = 136 g
  • 1 cup of rolled oats = of 85 g
  • 1 cup sugar = 201 g
  • 1 cup of molasses = 340 g etc.

First talk about the CUPS :

Cup is actually not a unit or you can say the size or the volume measurement. The cup of what? Is it salt, sugar, honey, water, milk or sand. If you know the volume of the cup. You may calculate the density or mass.

Relationship of mass and volume

Mass is the unit of grams and cup measures volume. To convert them you may know the mass-density.

mass-density formula

Worldwide standard cup measurements:

  • 1 US custom cup ( used for recipes)= 236.5 g
  • 1 US legal cup (referenced for nutrition) = 240 g
  • 1 UK / Australian / New Zealand / Canadian cup (metric) = 250g
  • 1 UK imperial cup = 284.131 g

Which cup should I Used?

When you are going to convert this volume into grams, there comes which type of cup and which ingredients you are converting.

And it also gives the more classification to which cup used into the recipe. For this purpose, clarify to use a US- Cup. But if you want to convert into other units like grams, pounds, quarts, tablespoons, teaspoons, litres or more than you can use any cooking converters.

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