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How many grams in a cup of sugar?
About 200 g in a US cup (240 ml), 211 g in a metric cup (250 ml) and 169 g in a 200 ml cup.
From
Cup size
Sugar
1 cup = 200 g
- Tablespoons16
- Teaspoons48
- Millilitres237
- Grams200
Dry ingredients are spooned into the cup and levelled. Scooped straight from the bag, flour can weigh up to 20% more — for baking, a scale is the safest bet.
Good to know:
- Granulated sugar is the easy one: it doesn't pack, so spooned or scooped, a US cup is about 200 g.
- Caster (superfine) sugar has finer crystals and is used cup for cup in most recipes.
- Cutting the sugar in a cake by up to a quarter usually works; more than that changes the texture, not just the sweetness.
Conversion tables (US cup · 240 ml):
Cups to grams
| Cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ⅛ | 25 g |
| ¼ | 50 g |
| ⅓ | 67 g |
| ½ | 100 g |
| ⅔ | 133 g |
| ¾ | 150 g |
| 1 | 200 g |
| 1½ | 300 g |
| 2 | 400 g |
| 3 | 600 g |
Grams to cups
| Grams | Cups |
|---|---|
| 25 g | ⅛ |
| 50 g | ¼ |
| 100 g | ½ |
| 150 g | ¾ |
| 200 g | 1 |
| 250 g | 1¼ |
| 300 g | 1½ |
| 500 g | 2½ |
Spoons to grams
| Spoons | Grams |
|---|---|
| ½ tsp | 2.1 g |
| 1 tsp | 4.2 g |
| 2 tsp | 8.3 g |
| ½ tbsp | 6.3 g |
| 1 tbsp | 13 g |
| 2 tbsp | 25 g |
| 3 tbsp | 38 g |
| 4 tbsp | 50 g |
| 8 tbsp | 100 g |
Other ingredients (US cup · 240 ml):
Questions:
- How many grams is ½ cup of sugar?
- 100 g. A ¼ cup is 50 g and ⅓ cup about 67 g.
- How many grams of sugar in a tablespoon?
- About 13 g; a teaspoon is about 4 g.
- Does a metric cup of sugar weigh more?
- Yes — a 250 ml cup holds about 211 g, roughly 10 g more than a US cup.
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