Cooking ingredient
Basmati Rice Measurement Reference
Basmati Rice is represented as a cooking ingredient in Conversion Encyclopedia and is grouped under Flours & Grains. Its measurement model uses a reference basis of 198 grams per US cup and supports 14 canonical mass-volume conversion tools.
- Entity type
- Cooking ingredient
- Dataset group
- Flours & Grains
Primary measurement reference
1 US cup of Basmati Rice = 198 g
This is the stored ingredient reference basis. The US cup measurement standard is 236.588 mL; it is not a second ingredient reference.
- Derived reference density
- 0.8369 g/mL
- Canonical conversion tools
- 14
Derived properties
Measurement profile
Each value is derived from the same 198 g per US cup reference basis.
- Reference density
- 0.8369 g/mL
- Per US tablespoon
- 12.38 g
- Per US teaspoon
- 4.125 g
- Per US fluid ounce
- 24.75 g
Evidence
Reference & provenance
- Reference source
- King Arthur Ingredient Weight Chart (Rice, long grain dry: 1/2 cup = 99g, derived)
- Recorded basis
- Basmati Rice — 1 US cup = 198 g
- Dataset confidence
- medium
Navigation
Basmati Rice conversion tools
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Basmati Rice has a stable machine-readable identity in Conversion Encyclopedia's cooking entity model. Its canonical ingredient slug is used when supported cooking conversions resolve a material.
Machine-readable entity identity
- Entity ID
ingredient:cooking:basmati-rice- Type
ingredient- Context
cooking- Slug
basmati-rice- Dataset group
- Flours & Grains
- Canonical conversions
- 14
Dataset comparison
Basmati Rice within Flours & Grains
35 ingredients in this dataset group have a grams-per-US-cup reference. Comparisons below use that reference only.
- Current entity
- Basmati Rice 198 g/cup
- Equal reference
- Jasmine Rice — 198 g/cup
- Nearest lower
- Couscous — 180 g/cup 18 g/cup lower
- Nearest higher
- Brown Rice — 200 g/cup 2 g/cup higher
- Group range
- Panko Breadcrumbs — 80 g/cup to Pearl Barley — 213 g/cup
Methodology
Method & scope
These measurements describe Conversion Encyclopedia’s reference mass-volume model for Basmati Rice. Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.