Cooking ingredient
Cocoa Powder Measurement Reference
Cocoa Powder is represented as a cooking ingredient in Conversion Encyclopedia and is grouped under Spices. Its measurement model uses a reference basis of 84 grams per US cup and supports 14 canonical mass-volume conversion tools.
- Entity type
- Cooking ingredient
- Dataset group
- Spices
Primary measurement reference
1 US cup of Cocoa Powder = 84 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
- 0.355 g/mL
- Canonical conversion tools
- 14
Derived properties
Measurement profile
Each value is derived from the same 84 g per US cup reference basis.
- Reference density
- 0.355 g/mL
- Per US tablespoon
- 5.25 g
- Per US teaspoon
- 1.75 g
- Per US fluid ounce
- 10.5 g
Evidence
Reference & provenance
- Reference source
- King Arthur weight chart (½ cup=42g)
- Recorded basis
- Cocoa Powder — 1 US cup = 84 g
- Dataset confidence
- high
Navigation
Cocoa Powder conversion tools
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Available to apps and AI agents
Cocoa Powder 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:cocoa-powder- Type
ingredient- Context
cooking- Slug
cocoa-powder- Dataset group
- Spices
- Canonical conversions
- 14
Dataset comparison
Cocoa Powder within Spices
15 ingredients in this dataset group have a grams-per-US-cup reference. Comparisons below use that reference only.
- Current entity
- Cocoa Powder 84 g/cup
- Nearest higher
- Cloves — 92 g/cup 8 g/cup higher
- Group range
- Cocoa Powder — 84 g/cup to Tajin — 275 g/cup
Methodology
Method & scope
These measurements describe Conversion Encyclopedia’s reference mass-volume model for Cocoa Powder. Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.