Cooking ingredient
Brown Sugar Measurement Reference
Brown Sugar is represented as a cooking ingredient in Conversion Encyclopedia and is grouped under Salts & Sugars. Its measurement model uses a reference basis of 213 grams per US cup and supports 14 canonical mass-volume conversion tools.
- Entity type
- Cooking ingredient
- Dataset group
- Salts & Sugars
Primary measurement reference
1 US cup of Brown Sugar = 213 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
- 0.9003 g/mL
- Canonical conversion tools
- 14
Derived properties
Measurement profile
Each value is derived from the same 213 g per US cup reference basis.
- Reference density
- 0.9003 g/mL
- Per US tablespoon
- 13.31 g
- Per US teaspoon
- 4.438 g
- Per US fluid ounce
- 26.63 g
Evidence
Reference & provenance
- Reference source
- King Arthur weight chart (packed)
- Recorded basis
- Brown Sugar — 1 US cup = 213 g
- Dataset confidence
- high
Navigation
Brown Sugar conversion tools
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Available to apps and AI agents
Brown Sugar 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:brown-sugar- Type
ingredient- Context
cooking- Slug
brown-sugar- Dataset group
- Salts & Sugars
- Canonical conversions
- 14
Methodology
Method & scope
These measurements describe Conversion Encyclopedia’s reference mass-volume model for Brown Sugar. Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.