How many cups is 1 gram?
How many cups is 1 gram?
Answer
A cup measures volume and grams measure weight, so 1 gram of different ingredients fills a different number of cups. The table gives all 19 of them, 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 | 1 gram in cups | One US cup weighs |
|---|---|---|
| All-purpose flour | 0.008 cups | 125 grams |
| Granulated sugar | 0.005 cups | 200 grams |
| Brown sugar, packed | 0.00455 cups | 220 grams |
| Brown sugar, unpacked | 0.0069 cups | 145 grams |
| Powdered sugar, unsifted | 0.00833 cups | 120 grams |
| Powdered sugar, sifted | 0.01 cups | 100 grams |
| Butter | 0.00441 cups | 227 grams |
| Water | 0.00423 cups | 236.6 grams |
| Whole milk | 0.0041 cups | 244 grams |
| White rice, uncooked | 0.00541 cups | 185 grams |
| White rice, cooked | 0.00633 cups | 158 grams |
| Rolled oats | 0.0123 cups | 81 grams |
| Honey | 0.00295 cups | 339 grams |
| Table salt | 0.00342 cups | 292 grams |
| Cocoa powder | 0.0116 cups | 86 grams |
| Plain yogurt | 0.00408 cups | 245 grams |
| Olive oil | 0.00463 cups | 216 grams |
| Vegetable oil | 0.00459 cups | 218 grams |
| Heavy cream | 0.0042 cups | 238 grams |
| Sour cream | 0.00435 cups | 230 grams |
| Peanut butter | 0.00388 cups | 258 grams |
| Cornstarch | 0.00781 cups | 128 grams |
How 1 gram of all-purpose flour was converted to cups
A cup is a volume, so its weight depends on the ingredient. One US cup of all-purpose flour weighs 125 grams (one hundred twenty-five), so divide 1 by 125.
1 g ÷ 125 g
=0.008 cups
(zero point zero zero eight cups)
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 grams in a cup
This page starts from grams and answers in cups. The opposite question — how many grams a recipe’s cups weigh, fractions like 1/2 and 2 1/2 included — is what the cups to grams converter is for. Both read the same USDA weights, so their numbers agree: one US cup of all-purpose flour is 125 grams there and here.
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See Also
- Cups to Grams - How many grams a US cup of flour, sugar, butter, rice or another ingredient weighs — by USDA data
- Ml to Cups - Convert Milliliters to Cups
- Cups to Ml - Convert Cups to Milliliters
- Grams to Ounces - Convert Grams to Ounces
- Gallons to Pounds - How much a gallon of water, milk, gasoline, diesel, oil or propane weighs in pounds — by density
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Grams to US cups for the most asked ingredients
| Grams | All-purpose flour, cups | Granulated sugar, cups | Butter, cups |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 g | 0.008 cups | 0.005 cups | 0.00441 cups |
| 2 g | 0.016 cups | 0.01 cups | 0.00881 cups |
| 3 g | 0.024 cups | 0.015 cups | 0.0132 cups |
| 4 g | 0.032 cups | 0.02 cups | 0.0176 cups |
| 5 g | 0.04 cups | 0.025 cups | 0.022 cups |
| 6 g | 0.048 cups | 0.03 cups | 0.0264 cups |
| 7 g | 0.056 cups | 0.035 cups | 0.0308 cups |
| 8 g | 0.064 cups | 0.04 cups | 0.0352 cups |
| 10 g | 0.08 cups | 0.05 cups | 0.0441 cups |
| 12 g | 0.096 cups | 0.06 cups | 0.0529 cups |
| 14 g | 0.11 cups | 0.07 cups | 0.0617 cups |
| 15 g | 0.12 cups | 0.075 cups | 0.0661 cups |
| 16 g | 0.13 cups | 0.08 cups | 0.0705 cups |
| 17 g | 0.14 cups | 0.085 cups | 0.0749 cups |
| 18 g | 0.14 cups | 0.09 cups | 0.0793 cups |