How many grams is 5 1/4 cups?
How many grams is 5 1/4 cups?
Answer
A cup measures volume, and every ingredient packs a different weight into it, so 5 1/4 cups has no single weight. The table gives all 19 ingredients, with the packed, sifted and cooked states on rows of their own, each from the weight of one US cup (236.6 ml) in USDA FoodData Central; water is counted from its volume.
| Ingredient | 5 1/4 cups in grams | One US cup weighs |
|---|---|---|
| All-purpose flour | 656.3 grams | 125 grams |
| Granulated sugar | 1,050 grams | 200 grams |
| Brown sugar, packed | 1,155 grams | 220 grams |
| Brown sugar, unpacked | 761.3 grams | 145 grams |
| Powdered sugar, unsifted | 630 grams | 120 grams |
| Powdered sugar, sifted | 525 grams | 100 grams |
| Butter | 1,192 grams | 227 grams |
| Water | 1,242 grams | 236.6 grams |
| Whole milk | 1,281 grams | 244 grams |
| White rice, uncooked | 971.3 grams | 185 grams |
| White rice, cooked | 829.5 grams | 158 grams |
| Rolled oats | 425.3 grams | 81 grams |
| Honey | 1,780 grams | 339 grams |
| Table salt | 1,533 grams | 292 grams |
| Cocoa powder | 451.5 grams | 86 grams |
| Plain yogurt | 1,286 grams | 245 grams |
| Olive oil | 1,134 grams | 216 grams |
| Vegetable oil | 1,145 grams | 218 grams |
| Heavy cream | 1,250 grams | 238 grams |
| Sour cream | 1,208 grams | 230 grams |
| Peanut butter | 1,355 grams | 258 grams |
| Cornstarch | 672 grams | 128 grams |
How 5 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour was converted to grams
One US cup of all-purpose flour weighs 125 grams (one hundred twenty-five), so multiply 5 1/4 by 125.
5 1/4 × 125 g
≈656.3 grams
(six hundred fifty-six point three grams)
The weight of the cup comes from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 168894 “Wheat flour, white, all-purpose, enriched, bleached”, portion “1 cup” = 125 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.
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 all-purpose flour is 0.8 cups there.
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- Grams to Cups - How many US cups a weight of flour, sugar, butter, rice or another ingredient fills — by USDA cup weights
- Cups to Ml - Convert Cups to Milliliters
- Ml to Cups - Convert Milliliters to Cups
- Cups to Tablespoons - Convert Cups to Tablespoons
- Oz to Grams - Convert Ounces to Grams
- Gallons to Pounds - How much a gallon of water, milk, gasoline, diesel, oil or propane weighs in pounds — by density
