Cooking ingredient
Granulated Sugar Measurement Reference
Granulated Sugar is represented as a cooking ingredient in Conversion Encyclopedia and is grouped under Salts & Sugars (Rimming/Specialty). Its measurement model uses a reference basis of 198 grams per US cup and supports 14 canonical mass-volume conversion tools.
- Entity type
- Cooking ingredient
- Dataset group
- Salts & Sugars (Rimming/Specialty)
Primary measurement reference
1 US cup of Granulated Sugar = 198 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
- 0.8369 g/mL
- Canonical conversion tools
- 14
Derived properties
Measurement profile
Each value is derived from the same 198 g per US cup reference basis.
- Reference density
- 0.8369 g/mL
- Per US tablespoon
- 12.38 g
- Per US teaspoon
- 4.125 g
- Per US fluid ounce
- 24.75 g
Evidence
Reference & provenance
- Reference source
- King Arthur weight chart
- Recorded basis
- Granulated Sugar — 1 US cup = 198 g
- Dataset confidence
- high
Navigation
Granulated Sugar conversion tools
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Available to apps and AI agents
Granulated 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:granulated-sugar- Type
ingredient- Context
cooking- Slug
granulated-sugar- Dataset group
- Salts & Sugars (Rimming/Specialty)
- Canonical conversions
- 14
Dataset comparison
Granulated Sugar within Salts & Sugars (Rimming/Specialty)
6 ingredients in this dataset group have a grams-per-US-cup reference. Comparisons below use that reference only.
- Current entity
- Granulated Sugar 198 g/cup
- Nearest lower
- Rock Salt — 192 g/cup 6 g/cup lower
- Nearest higher
- Demerara Sugar — 220 g/cup 22 g/cup higher
- Group range
- Powdered Sugar — 113 g/cup to Salt — 288 g/cup
Methodology
Method & scope
These measurements describe Conversion Encyclopedia’s reference mass-volume model for Granulated Sugar. Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.