Cooking ingredient
Caster Sugar Measurement Reference
Caster Sugar is represented as a cooking ingredient in Conversion Encyclopedia and is grouped under Sugars & Sweeteners. Its measurement model uses a reference basis of 190 grams per US cup and supports 14 canonical mass-volume conversion tools.
- Entity type
- Cooking ingredient
- Dataset group
- Sugars & Sweeteners
Primary measurement reference
1 US cup of Caster Sugar = 190 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
- 0.8031 g/mL
- Canonical conversion tools
- 14
Derived properties
Measurement profile
Each value is derived from the same 190 g per US cup reference basis.
- Reference density
- 0.8031 g/mL
- Per US tablespoon
- 11.88 g
- Per US teaspoon
- 3.958 g
- Per US fluid ounce
- 23.75 g
Evidence
Reference & provenance
- Reference source
- King Arthur Ingredient Weight Chart (Baker's Special Sugar / castor sugar: 1 cup = 190g)
- Recorded basis
- Caster Sugar — 1 US cup = 190 g
- Dataset confidence
- high
Navigation
Caster Sugar conversion tools
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Available to apps and AI agents
Caster 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:caster-sugar- Type
ingredient- Context
cooking- Slug
caster-sugar- Dataset group
- Sugars & Sweeteners
- Canonical conversions
- 14
Dataset comparison
Caster Sugar within Sugars & Sweeteners
17 ingredients in this dataset group have a grams-per-US-cup reference. Comparisons below use that reference only.
- Current entity
- Caster Sugar 190 g/cup
- Equal reference
- Erythritol — 190 g/cup
- Nearest lower
- Turbinado Sugar — 180 g/cup 10 g/cup lower
- Nearest higher
- Muscovado Sugar — 192 g/cup 2 g/cup higher
- Group range
- Stevia — 96 g/cup to Honey — 340 g/cup
Methodology
Method & scope
These measurements describe Conversion Encyclopedia’s reference mass-volume model for Caster Sugar. Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.