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.
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
Common ingredients
What one US cup of each weighs, and what your amount comes to in each. Pick a row to convert it.
| Ingredient | Grams per cup | 200 g in cup | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236.6 | 0.8453 | 1 g/mL | |
| 125 | 1.6 | Spooned | |
| 140 | 1.429 | Scooped | |
| 127 | 1.575 | Spooned | |
| 114 | 1.754 | Spooned | |
| 120 | 1.667 | Spooned | |
| 200 | 1 | USDA | |
| 220 | 0.9091 | Packed | |
| 120 | 1.667 | Spooned | |
| 227 | 0.8811 | USDA | |
| 245 | 0.8163 | USDA | |
| 238 | 0.8403 | USDA | |
| 218 | 0.9174 | USDA | |
| 340 | 0.5882 | USDA | |
| 322 | 0.6211 | USDA | |
| 85 | 2.353 | Spooned | |
| 128 | 1.563 | USDA | |
| 90 | 2.222 | Spooned | |
| 185 | 1.081 | USDA | |
| 170 | 1.176 | USDA |
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.
| Grams | Cups | To the nearest 1/8 cup |
|---|---|---|
| 50 g | 0.25 cups | exactly 1/4 cup |
| 100 g | 0.5 cups | exactly 1/2 cup |
| 150 g | 0.75 cups | exactly 3/4 cup |
| 200 g | 1 cup | exactly 1 cup |
| 250 g | 1.25 cups | exactly 1 1/4 cups |
| 300 g | 1.5 cups | exactly 1 1/2 cups |
| 350 g | 1.75 cups | exactly 1 3/4 cups |
| 400 g | 2 cups | exactly 2 cups |
| 450 g | 2.25 cups | exactly 2 1/4 cups |
| 500 g | 2.5 cups | exactly 2 1/2 cups |
| 50 g | 1/4 cup | exactly 1/4 cup |
| 66.67 g | 1/3 cup | about 3/8 cup |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup | exactly 1/2 cup |
| 133.3 g | 2/3 cup | about 5/8 cup |
| 150 g | 3/4 cup | exactly 3/4 cup |
| 200 g | 1 cup | exactly 1 cup |
| 300 g | 1 1/2 cups | exactly 1 1/2 cups |
| 400 g | 2 cups | exactly 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.