Cooking ingredient
Butter (Unsalted) Measurement Reference
Butter (Unsalted) is represented as a cooking ingredient in Conversion Encyclopedia and is grouped under Fats & Oils. Its measurement model uses a reference basis of 227 grams per US cup and supports 14 canonical mass-volume conversion tools.
- Entity type
- Cooking ingredient
- Dataset group
- Fats & Oils
Primary measurement reference
1 US cup of Butter (Unsalted) = 227 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
- 0.9595 g/mL
- Canonical conversion tools
- 14
Derived properties
Measurement profile
Each value is derived from the same 227 g per US cup reference basis.
- Reference density
- 0.9595 g/mL
- Per US tablespoon
- 14.19 g
- Per US teaspoon
- 4.729 g
- Per US fluid ounce
- 28.38 g
Evidence
Reference & provenance
- Reference source
- USDA (1 cup butter ≈ 227g)
- Recorded basis
- Butter (Unsalted) — 1 US cup = 227 g
- Dataset confidence
- high
Navigation
Butter (Unsalted) conversion tools
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Butter (Unsalted) 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:butter-unsalted- Type
ingredient- Context
cooking- Slug
butter-unsalted- Dataset group
- Fats & Oils
- Canonical conversions
- 14
Dataset comparison
Butter (Unsalted) within Fats & Oils
14 ingredients in this dataset group have a grams-per-US-cup reference. Comparisons below use that reference only.
- Current entity
- Butter (Unsalted) 227 g/cup
- Equal reference
- Butter (Salted) — 227 g/cup; Margarine — 227 g/cup
- Nearest lower
- Ghee — 220 g/cup 7 g/cup lower
- Group range
- Shortening — 191 g/cup to Margarine — 227 g/cup
Methodology
Method & scope
These measurements describe Conversion Encyclopedia’s reference mass-volume model for Butter (Unsalted). Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.