How many grams are in a cup of water?
For example, if you want to convert 1 standard US cup of water into grams, you get exactly 236.59 g . However, 1 cup of salt weights around 287 g and 1 cup of wheat flour - only 141.6 g.
What is a legal cup?
There is also another cup type in the USA, and it's called a legal cup. It is used in nutrition labeling, and it measures 240 mL. Other countries occasionally use cup unit and the recipes normally weigh non-liquid ingredients in grams rather than measuring volume. UK imperial cup was used in pre-1970 recipes.
When was the imperial cup used?
UK imperial cup was used in pre-1970 recipes. Sometimes the metric cup (250 mL) is still used in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. In our grams to cups calculator you can choose between the first three cup types.