Cooking ingredient
Salt Measurement Reference
Salt 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 288 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 Salt = 288 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
- 1.217 g/mL
- Canonical conversion tools
- 14
Derived properties
Measurement profile
Each value is derived from the same 288 g per US cup reference basis.
- Reference density
- 1.217 g/mL
- Per US tablespoon
- 18 g
- Per US teaspoon
- 6 g
- Per US fluid ounce
- 36 g
Evidence
Reference & provenance
- Reference source
- King Arthur Ingredient Weight Chart (Salt, table: 1 Tbsp = 18g, derived)
- Recorded basis
- Salt — 1 US cup = 288 g
- Dataset confidence
- medium
Navigation
Salt conversion tools
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Available to apps and AI agents
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:salt- Type
ingredient- Context
cooking- Slug
salt- Dataset group
- Salts & Sugars (Rimming/Specialty)
- Canonical conversions
- 14
Dataset comparison
Salt 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
- Salt 288 g/cup
- Equal reference
- Celery Salt — 288 g/cup
- Nearest lower
- Demerara Sugar — 220 g/cup 68 g/cup lower
- 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 Salt. Derived measurements use the reference basis shown above. They are measurement references, not nutritional or ingredient-substitution guidance.