How many cups is 12 grams?

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How many cups is 12 grams?

Answer

There is no single number — it depends on the ingredient. 12 grams fills

from 0.0354 cups (honey) to 0.15 cups (rolled oats)

A cup measures volume and grams measure weight, so 12 grams 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.

12 grams of each ingredient in US cups
Ingredient	12 grams in cups	One US cup weighs
All-purpose flour	0.096 cups	125 grams
Granulated sugar	0.06 cups	200 grams
Brown sugar, packed	0.0545 cups	220 grams
Brown sugar, unpacked	0.0828 cups	145 grams
Powdered sugar, unsifted	0.1 cups	120 grams
Powdered sugar, sifted	0.12 cups	100 grams
Butter	0.0529 cups	227 grams
Water	0.0507 cups	236.6 grams
Whole milk	0.0492 cups	244 grams
White rice, uncooked	0.0649 cups	185 grams
White rice, cooked	0.0759 cups	158 grams
Rolled oats	0.15 cups	81 grams
Honey	0.0354 cups	339 grams
Table salt	0.0411 cups	292 grams
Cocoa powder	0.14 cups	86 grams
Plain yogurt	0.049 cups	245 grams
Olive oil	0.0556 cups	216 grams
Vegetable oil	0.055 cups	218 grams
Heavy cream	0.0504 cups	238 grams
Sour cream	0.0522 cups	230 grams
Peanut butter	0.0465 cups	258 grams
Cornstarch	0.0938 cups	128 grams

How 12 grams of all-purpose flour was converted to cups

cups = grams ÷ grams in one US cup

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 12 by 125.

12 g ÷ 125 g

0.096 cups

(zero point zero nine six 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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About "Grams to Cups" Calculator

This converter turns grams of an ingredient into US cups. A cup is a volume and a gram is a weight, so the answer depends on what is in the cup: 100 grams of all-purpose flour fill 0.8 cups, the same 100 grams of sugar only 0.5 cups. Pick the ingredient, or leave it on “any ingredient” to see all 19 side by side. For example, it can help you find out how many cups is 12 grams? Cup weights come from USDA FoodData Central, and the cup is the US customary cup of 236.6 ml.

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Grams to US cups for the most asked ingredients

Grams	All-purpose flour, cups	Granulated sugar, cups	Butter, 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
20 g	0.16 cups	0.1 cups	0.0881 cups
21 g	0.17 cups	0.11 cups	0.0925 cups

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