Cooking ingredient
Powdered Sugar Measurement Reference
Powdered 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 113 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 Powdered Sugar = 113 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
- 0.4776 g/mL
- Canonical conversion tools
- 14
Derived properties
Measurement profile
Each value is derived from the same 113 g per US cup reference basis.
- Reference density
- 0.4776 g/mL
- Per US tablespoon
- 7.063 g
- Per US teaspoon
- 2.354 g
- Per US fluid ounce
- 14.13 g
Evidence
Reference & provenance
- Reference source
- King Arthur weight chart (unsifted)
- Recorded basis
- Powdered Sugar — 1 US cup = 113 g
- Dataset confidence
- high
Navigation
Powdered Sugar conversion tools
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Available to apps and AI agents
Powdered 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:powdered-sugar- Type
ingredient- Context
cooking- Slug
powdered-sugar- Dataset group
- Salts & Sugars (Rimming/Specialty)
- Canonical conversions
- 14
Dataset comparison
Powdered 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
- Powdered Sugar 113 g/cup
- Nearest higher
- Rock Salt — 192 g/cup 79 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 Powdered Sugar. Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.