Cooking ingredient

Raw Sugar Measurement Reference

Raw Sugar is represented as a cooking ingredient in Conversion Encyclopedia and is grouped under Sugars & Sweeteners. Its measurement model uses a reference basis of 180 grams per US cup and supports 14 canonical mass-volume conversion tools.

Entity type
Cooking ingredient
Dataset group
Sugars & Sweeteners

Primary measurement reference

1 US cup of Raw Sugar = 180 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
0.7608 g/mL
Canonical conversion tools
14

Derived properties

Measurement profile

Each value is derived from the same 180 g per US cup reference basis.

Reference density
0.7608 g/mL
Per US tablespoon
11.25 g
Per US teaspoon
3.75 g
Per US fluid ounce
22.5 g

Evidence

Reference & provenance

Reference source
King Arthur Ingredient Weight Chart (Turbinado sugar (raw): 1 cup = 180g)
Recorded basis
Raw Sugar — 1 US cup = 180 g
Dataset confidence
medium

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Raw Sugar conversion tools

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Raw 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:raw-sugar
Type
ingredient
Context
cooking
Slug
raw-sugar
Dataset group
Sugars & Sweeteners
Canonical conversions
14

Dataset comparison

Raw Sugar within Sugars & Sweeteners

17 ingredients in this dataset group have a grams-per-US-cup reference. Comparisons below use that reference only.

Current entity
Raw Sugar 180 g/cup
Equal reference
Turbinado Sugar — 180 g/cup
Nearest lower
Coconut Sugar — 154 g/cup 26 g/cup lower
Nearest higher
Caster Sugar — 190 g/cup 10 g/cup higher
Group range
Stevia — 96 g/cup to Honey — 340 g/cup

Methodology

Method & scope

These measurements describe Conversion Encyclopedia’s reference mass-volume model for Raw Sugar. Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.