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Sugar Grams to Cups

Convert grams of sugar to cups and cups of sugar to grams, starting from 200 g of granulated sugar, which is exactly one US cup. Granulated sugar is the easy case because it does not pack: 200 g a cup from USDA FoodData Central, and the table below follows from that one number. Caster, brown and powdered sugar weigh differently and are in the ingredient list above with their own figures.

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Ingredient
Cup size
Round

Granulated sugar: 200 g in one US cup, a density of 0.8454 g per mL. Source: USDA FoodData Central.

200 g of granulated sugar, in every unit

  • Cupscup · 1
    1
  • Tablespoonstbsp
    16
  • Teaspoonstsp
    48
  • MillilitresmL
    236.6
  • Fluid ounces (US)fl oz
    8
  • Ounces (weight)oz
    7.055
  • Kilogramskg
    0.2
  • Poundslb
    0.4409

Common ingredients

What one US cup of each weighs, and what your amount comes to in each. Pick a row to convert it.

IngredientGrams per cup200 g in cupSource
236.60.84531 g/mL
1251.6Spooned
1401.429Scooped
1271.575Spooned
1141.754Spooned
1201.667Spooned
2001USDA
2200.9091Packed
1201.667Spooned
2270.8811USDA
2450.8163USDA
2380.8403USDA
2180.9174USDA
3400.5882USDA
3220.6211USDA
852.353Spooned
1281.563USDA
902.222Spooned
1851.081USDA
1701.176USDA
There is no single answer to “how many grams in a cup”. A cup measures volume and a gram measures mass, so the two only meet through a density, and the density belongs to the ingredient. A cup of cocoa powder is 85 g, a cup of honey is 340 g, and both are correct. That is why the ingredient is a required choice here rather than an optional refinement, and why the number used is printed under every result with the source it came from. Accuracy. Cups measure volume and grams measure mass, so the answer depends on the ingredient; the density used is shown beside every result with its source. Flour differs by about 12 percent between spooned and scooped, and both are listed.

Granulated sugar: grams to cups and cups to grams

Computed with the tool's own figure for granulated sugar: 200 g per US cup of 236.588 mL, a density of 0.8454 g per mL, from USDA FoodData Central. The first ten rows are round gram amounts, the last eight are round cup amounts. Every gram row lands exactly on an eighth of a cup because 200 divides evenly by 8.

GramsCupsTo the nearest 1/8 cup
50 g0.25 cupsexactly 1/4 cup
100 g0.5 cupsexactly 1/2 cup
150 g0.75 cupsexactly 3/4 cup
200 g1 cupexactly 1 cup
250 g1.25 cupsexactly 1 1/4 cups
300 g1.5 cupsexactly 1 1/2 cups
350 g1.75 cupsexactly 1 3/4 cups
400 g2 cupsexactly 2 cups
450 g2.25 cupsexactly 2 1/4 cups
500 g2.5 cupsexactly 2 1/2 cups
50 g1/4 cupexactly 1/4 cup
66.67 g1/3 cupabout 3/8 cup
100 g1/2 cupexactly 1/2 cup
133.3 g2/3 cupabout 5/8 cup
150 g3/4 cupexactly 3/4 cup
200 g1 cupexactly 1 cup
300 g1 1/2 cupsexactly 1 1/2 cups
400 g2 cupsexactly 2 cups

Common questions

How many cups is 200 g of sugar?
Exactly 1 cup of granulated sugar, at 200 g per US cup. The round figure is why sugar conversions come out so cleanly: 100 g is 1/2 cup, 150 g is 3/4 cup, 300 g is 1 1/2 cups and 400 g is 2 cups. The converter above starts on 200 g; change the amount or the ingredient to go on from there.
How many grams are in 1 cup of sugar?
200 g for granulated sugar. Caster (superfine) sugar is finer and settles to 225 g a cup, packed brown sugar is 220 g, loose brown sugar 145 g, powdered (icing) sugar 120 g and coconut sugar 154 g. Pick the one the recipe names, because the gap between packed brown and powdered is nearly double.
Does packed brown sugar really weigh more than loose?
Yes, by a lot. Pressing brown sugar firmly into the cup, which is what a recipe means by packed, gets 220 g into a US cup. Dropped in loose it comes to about 145 g. Both are separate entries in the ingredient list above so the tool never averages them, and the density it used is printed under every result.
Is a metric cup of sugar a different weight?
Slightly. A metric cup is 250 mL against the US cup's 236.588 mL, so a metric cup of granulated sugar holds 211.3 g rather than 200 g. The tool has a switch for the metric cup, and it moves the tablespoon to 15 mL and the teaspoon to 5 mL at the same time. The table on this page is for the US cup.

Cups measure volume and grams measure mass, so the answer depends on the ingredient; the density used is shown beside every result with its source. Flour differs by about 12 percent between spooned and scooped, and both are listed.