How many grams is 14 tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar?

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How many grams is 14 tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar?

Answer

14 US tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar weighs
87.5 grams

One US tablespoon (14.8 ml) of sifted powdered sugar weighs 6.25 grams, from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 169656 “Sugars, powdered”, portion “1 cup sifted” = 100 grams, and 1 US cup = 16 US tablespoons.

14 tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar equals 87.5 grams; the way back, from grams to tablespoons, is the Grams to Tablespoons converter.

Unsifted powdered sugar weighs 7.5 grams per tablespoon, so 14 tablespoons of it is 105 grams.

14 US tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar is also 7/8 US cup or 42 US teaspoons — the same 87.5 grams.

This is the level US tablespoon of 14.8 ml. A recipe from Australia means the tablespoon of 20 ml, 35.3 % more: 118.3 grams; the metric tablespoon of 15 ml (UK, New Zealand, Canada) gives 88.8 grams.

How 14 tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar was converted to grams

grams = tablespoons × grams in one US tablespoon

One US tablespoon of sifted powdered sugar weighs 6.25 grams (six point two five), so multiply 14 by 6.25.

14 × 6.25 g

=

87.5 grams

(eighty-seven point five grams)

The weight of the tablespoon comes from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 169656 “Sugars, powdered”, portion “1 cup sifted” = 100 grams, and 1 US cup = 16 US tablespoons. Scooped ingredients vary with how they are filled — spooned in lightly, a tablespoon weighs less; packed down, more — so for baking a kitchen scale is the exact tool and this figure the standard reference.

14 tablespoons of other ingredients in grams

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The other way round: how many tablespoons a weight fills

This page starts from tablespoons and answers in grams. The opposite question — how many tablespoons a weight from a recipe fills — is what the grams to tablespoons converter is for. Both read the same USDA weights, so their numbers agree: 100 grams of sifted powdered sugar is 16 tablespoons there.

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About "Tablespoons to Grams" Calculator

This converter turns US tablespoons (tbsp) of an ingredient into grams. The weight of a tablespoon depends on what fills it: a tablespoon of butter weighs 14.2 grams, of granulated sugar 12.5 grams and of honey 21.2 grams. Type the spoons 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 23 at once. For example, it can help you find out how many grams is 14 tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar? (The answer is: 87.5). Weights come from USDA FoodData Central, and the spoon is the level US tablespoon of 14.8 ml — 1/16 of a US cup.
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US tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar to grams

TablespoonsGrams
3 tablespoons18.8 grams
3 1/2 tablespoons21.9 grams
4 tablespoons25 grams
4 1/2 tablespoons28.1 grams
5 tablespoons31.3 grams
6 tablespoons37.5 grams
7 tablespoons43.8 grams
8 tablespoons50 grams
9 tablespoons56.3 grams
10 tablespoons62.5 grams
11 tablespoons68.8 grams
12 tablespoons75 grams
14 tablespoons87.5 grams
15 tablespoons93.8 grams
16 tablespoons100 grams

FAQ

How many grams is 14 tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar?

14 US tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar weighs 87.5 grams

How do you work out 14 tablespoons of sifted powdered sugar in grams?

Multiply the tablespoons by the weight of one US tablespoon of sifted powdered sugar: 14 × 6.25 = 87.5. The weight of one US tablespoon comes from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 169656 “Sugars, powdered”, portion “1 cup sifted” = 100 grams, and 1 US cup = 16 US tablespoons.

How many tablespoons is 100 grams of sifted powdered sugar?

16 US tablespoons — 100 g divided by the 6.25 grams that one US tablespoon of it weighs.

What about unsifted powdered sugar?

14 tablespoons of unsifted powdered sugar weighs 105 grams: one US tablespoon of it weighs 7.5 grams against 6.25 grams for sifted powdered sugar.