How many grams is 4 cups of unsifted powdered sugar?

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How many grams is 4 cups of unsifted powdered sugar?

Answer

4 US cups of unsifted powdered sugar weighs
480 grams

One US cup (236.6 ml) of unsifted powdered sugar weighs 120 grams, from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 169656 “Sugars, powdered”, portion “1 cup unsifted” = 120 grams.

4 cups of unsifted powdered sugar equals 480 grams; the way back, from grams to cups, is the Grams to Cups converter.

Sifted powdered sugar weighs 100 grams per cup, so 4 cups of it is 400 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: 507.2 grams.

How 4 cups of unsifted powdered sugar was converted to grams

grams = cups × grams in one US cup

One US cup of unsifted powdered sugar weighs 120 grams (one hundred twenty), so multiply 4 by 120.

4 × 120 g

=

480 grams

(four hundred eighty grams)

The weight of the cup comes from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 169656 “Sugars, powdered”, portion “1 cup unsifted” = 120 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.

4 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.

If the ingredient is not settled yet, start from how many grams 4 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 unsifted powdered sugar is 0.83 cups there.

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About "Cups to Grams" Calculator

This converter turns US cups of an ingredient into grams. The weight of a cup depends on what fills it: a cup of all-purpose flour weighs 125 grams, a cup of sugar 200 grams and a cup of honey 339 grams. Type the cups the way a recipe writes them — 1/2, 1 1/2 or 0.75 — and pick the ingredient, or leave it on “any ingredient” to see all 19 at once. For example, it can help you find out how many grams is 4 cups of unsifted powdered sugar? (The answer is: 480). Cup weights come from USDA FoodData Central, and the cup is the US customary cup of 236.6 ml.
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US cups of unsifted powdered sugar to grams

CupsGrams
2 2/3 cups320 grams
2 3/4 cups330 grams
3 cups360 grams
3 1/4 cups390 grams
3 1/3 cups400 grams
3 1/2 cups420 grams
3 3/4 cups450 grams
4 cups480 grams
4 1/4 cups510 grams
4 1/2 cups540 grams
5 cups600 grams
5 1/4 cups630 grams
5 1/2 cups660 grams
6 cups720 grams
6 1/2 cups780 grams

FAQ

How many grams is 4 cups of unsifted powdered sugar?

4 US cups of unsifted powdered sugar weighs 480 grams

How do you work out 4 cups of unsifted powdered sugar in grams?

Multiply the cups by the weight of one US cup of unsifted powdered sugar: 4 × 120 = 480. The weight of one US cup comes from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 169656 “Sugars, powdered”, portion “1 cup unsifted” = 120 grams.

How many cups is 100 grams of unsifted powdered sugar?

0.83 US cups — 100 g divided by the 120 grams that one US cup of it weighs.

What about sifted powdered sugar?

4 cups of sifted powdered sugar weighs 400 grams: one US cup of it weighs 100 grams against 120 grams for unsifted powdered sugar.