Cooking ingredient
Fine Sea Salt Measurement Reference
Fine Sea Salt is represented as a cooking ingredient in Conversion Encyclopedia and is grouped under Salt & Spices. Its measurement model uses a reference basis of 240 grams per US cup and supports 14 canonical mass-volume conversion tools.
- Entity type
- Cooking ingredient
- Dataset group
- Salt & Spices
Primary measurement reference
1 US cup of Fine Sea Salt = 240 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
- 1.014 g/mL
- Canonical conversion tools
- 14
Derived properties
Measurement profile
Each value is derived from the same 240 g per US cup reference basis.
- Reference density
- 1.014 g/mL
- Per US tablespoon
- 15 g
- Per US teaspoon
- 5 g
- Per US fluid ounce
- 30 g
Evidence
Reference & provenance
- Reference source
- Calculator Academy (Sea salt, fine: ≈240g per US cup)
- Recorded basis
- Fine Sea Salt — 1 US cup = 240 g
- Dataset confidence
- medium
Navigation
Fine Sea Salt conversion tools
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Available to apps and AI agents
Fine Sea Salt 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:fine-sea-salt- Type
ingredient- Context
cooking- Slug
fine-sea-salt- Dataset group
- Salt & Spices
- Canonical conversions
- 14
Dataset comparison
Fine Sea Salt within Salt & Spices
13 ingredients in this dataset group have a grams-per-US-cup reference. Comparisons below use that reference only.
- Current entity
- Fine Sea Salt 240 g/cup
- Nearest lower
- Coarse Sea Salt — 224 g/cup 16 g/cup lower
- Nearest higher
- Table Salt — 288 g/cup 48 g/cup higher
- Group range
- Onion Powder — 80 g/cup to Table Salt — 288 g/cup
Methodology
Method & scope
These measurements describe Conversion Encyclopedia’s reference mass-volume model for Fine Sea Salt. Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.