Cooking ingredient
Cottage Cheese Measurement Reference
Cottage Cheese is represented as a cooking ingredient in Conversion Encyclopedia and is grouped under Dairy & Eggs. Its measurement model uses a reference basis of 226 grams per US cup and supports 14 canonical mass-volume conversion tools.
- Entity type
- Cooking ingredient
- Dataset group
- Dairy & Eggs
Primary measurement reference
1 US cup of Cottage Cheese = 226 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
- 0.9552 g/mL
- Canonical conversion tools
- 14
Derived properties
Measurement profile
Each value is derived from the same 226 g per US cup reference basis.
- Reference density
- 0.9552 g/mL
- Per US tablespoon
- 14.13 g
- Per US teaspoon
- 4.708 g
- Per US fluid ounce
- 28.25 g
Evidence
Reference & provenance
- Reference source
- USDA typical (1 cup ≈ 226g)
- Recorded basis
- Cottage Cheese — 1 US cup = 226 g
- Dataset confidence
- medium
Navigation
Cottage Cheese conversion tools
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Cottage Cheese 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:cottage-cheese- Type
ingredient- Context
cooking- Slug
cottage-cheese- Dataset group
- Dairy & Eggs
- Canonical conversions
- 14
Dataset comparison
Cottage Cheese within Dairy & Eggs
14 ingredients in this dataset group have a grams-per-US-cup reference. Comparisons below use that reference only.
- Current entity
- Cottage Cheese 226 g/cup
- Nearest lower
- Shredded Mozzarella — 113 g/cup 113 g/cup lower
- Nearest higher
- Cream Cheese — 228 g/cup 2 g/cup higher
- Group range
- Grated Parmesan — 100 g/cup to Ricotta Cheese — 246 g/cup
Methodology
Method & scope
These measurements describe Conversion Encyclopedia’s reference mass-volume model for Cottage Cheese. Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.