Cooking ingredient

Vegetable Oil Measurement Reference

Vegetable Oil is represented as a cooking ingredient in Conversion Encyclopedia and is grouped under Fats & Oils. Its measurement model uses a reference basis of 218 grams per US cup and supports 14 canonical mass-volume conversion tools.

Entity type
Cooking ingredient
Dataset group
Fats & Oils

Primary measurement reference

1 US cup of Vegetable Oil = 218 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
0.9214 g/mL
Canonical conversion tools
14

Derived properties

Measurement profile

Each value is derived from the same 218 g per US cup reference basis.

Reference density
0.9214 g/mL
Per US tablespoon
13.63 g
Per US teaspoon
4.542 g
Per US fluid ounce
27.25 g

Evidence

Reference & provenance

Reference source
density ~0.92 g/mL × 236.588 mL
Recorded basis
Vegetable Oil — 1 US cup = 218 g
Dataset confidence
medium

Navigation

Vegetable Oil conversion tools

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Available to apps and AI agents

Vegetable Oil 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:vegetable-oil
Type
ingredient
Context
cooking
Slug
vegetable-oil
Dataset group
Fats & Oils
Canonical conversions
14

Dataset comparison

Vegetable Oil within Fats & Oils

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

Current entity
Vegetable Oil 218 g/cup
Equal reference
Avocado Oil — 218 g/cup; Canola Oil — 218 g/cup; Coconut Oil — 218 g/cup; Peanut Oil — 218 g/cup; Sesame Oil — 218 g/cup; Sunflower Oil — 218 g/cup
Nearest lower
Olive Oil — 216 g/cup 2 g/cup lower
Nearest higher
Ghee — 220 g/cup 2 g/cup higher
Group range
Shortening — 191 g/cup to Margarine — 227 g/cup

Methodology

Method & scope

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