How many grams is 12 cups of packed brown sugar?
How many grams is 12 cups of packed brown sugar?
Answer
One US cup (236.6 ml) of packed brown sugar weighs 220 grams, from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 168833 “Sugars, brown”, portion “1 cup packed” = 220 grams.
12 cups of packed brown sugar equals 2,640 grams; the way back, from grams to cups, is the Grams to Cups converter.
Unpacked brown sugar weighs 145 grams per cup, so 12 cups of it is 1,740 grams.
This is the US customary cup of 236.6 ml. A recipe written for the metric cup of 250 ml (Australia, New Zealand, Canada) means 5.7 % more: 2,790 grams.
How 12 cups of packed brown sugar was converted to grams
One US cup of packed brown sugar weighs 220 grams (two hundred twenty), so multiply 12 by 220.
12 × 220 g
=2,640 grams
(two thousand six hundred forty grams)
The weight of the cup comes from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 168833 “Sugars, brown”, portion “1 cup packed” = 220 grams. Scooped ingredients vary with how they are filled — spooned in lightly, a cup weighs less; packed down, more — so for baking a kitchen scale is the exact tool and this figure the standard reference.
12 cups of other ingredients in grams
The same cup weighs differently for every ingredient: airy ones such as oats and cocoa are light, dense ones such as honey and salt heavy. Your ingredient is highlighted.
| Ingredient | 12 cups in grams | One US cup weighs |
|---|---|---|
| All-purpose flour | 1,500 grams | 125 grams |
| Granulated sugar | 2,400 grams | 200 grams |
| Brown sugar, packed | 2,640 grams | 220 grams |
| Brown sugar, unpacked | 1,740 grams | 145 grams |
| Powdered sugar, unsifted | 1,440 grams | 120 grams |
| Powdered sugar, sifted | 1,200 grams | 100 grams |
| Butter | 2,724 grams | 227 grams |
| Water | 2,839 grams | 236.6 grams |
| Whole milk | 2,928 grams | 244 grams |
| White rice, uncooked | 2,220 grams | 185 grams |
| White rice, cooked | 1,896 grams | 158 grams |
| Rolled oats | 972 grams | 81 grams |
| Honey | 4,068 grams | 339 grams |
| Table salt | 3,504 grams | 292 grams |
| Cocoa powder | 1,032 grams | 86 grams |
| Plain yogurt | 2,940 grams | 245 grams |
| Olive oil | 2,592 grams | 216 grams |
| Vegetable oil | 2,616 grams | 218 grams |
| Heavy cream | 2,856 grams | 238 grams |
| Sour cream | 2,760 grams | 230 grams |
| Peanut butter | 3,096 grams | 258 grams |
| Cornstarch | 1,536 grams | 128 grams |
If the ingredient is not settled yet, start from how many grams 12 cups is across every ingredient at once.
The other way round: how many cups a weight fills
This page starts from cups and answers in grams. The opposite question — how many cups a weight from a recipe fills — is what the grams to cups converter is for. Both read the same USDA weights, so their numbers agree: 100 grams of packed brown sugar is 0.45 cups there.
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US cups of packed brown sugar to grams
| Cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| 3 3/4 cups | 825 grams |
| 4 cups | 880 grams |
| 4 1/4 cups | 935 grams |
| 4 1/2 cups | 990 grams |
| 5 cups | 1,100 grams |
| 5 1/4 cups | 1,155 grams |
| 5 1/2 cups | 1,210 grams |
| 6 cups | 1,320 grams |
| 6 1/2 cups | 1,430 grams |
| 7 cups | 1,540 grams |
| 7 1/2 cups | 1,650 grams |
| 8 cups | 1,760 grams |
| 9 cups | 1,980 grams |
| 10 cups | 2,200 grams |
| 12 cups | 2,640 grams |
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See Also
- 10 cups of unsifted powdered sugar in grams — 1,200 g
- 10 cups of sifted powdered sugar in grams — 1,000 g
- 10 cups of uncooked white rice in grams — 1,850 g
- 10 cups of table salt in grams — 2,920 g
- 10 cups of sour cream in grams — 2,300 g
- 10 cups of granulated sugar in grams — 2,000 g
- 10 cups of vegetable oil in grams — 2,180 g
- 10 cups of water in grams — 2,366 g
- 10 cups of plain yogurt in grams — 2,450 g
- 12 cups in grams — flour, sugar, butter and more
- 12 cups of unpacked brown sugar in grams — 1,740 g
- 12 cups of butter in grams — 2,724 g
- 12 cups of cocoa powder in grams — 1,032 g
- 12 cups of cooked white rice in grams — 1,896 g
- 12 cups of cornstarch in grams — 1,536 g
- 12 cups of all-purpose flour in grams — 1,500 g
- 12 cups of heavy cream in grams — 2,856 g
- 12 cups of honey in grams — 4,068 g
- 12 cups of whole milk in grams — 2,928 g
- 12 cups of rolled oats in grams — 972 g