Cooking

Cups to grams: granulated sugar

Convert US cups of granulated white sugar to grams. For brown sugar, lightly packed is similar; firmly packed adds roughly 15%.

cups
g

g = cups × 200

Quick reference

Common amountcupsg
1/4 cup 0.25 cups 50 g
1/2 cup 0.5 cups 100 g
3/4 cup 0.75 cups 150 g
1 cup 1 cups 200 g
1 1/2 cups 1.5 cups 300 g
2 cups 2 cups 400 g

About this conversion

One US cup of granulated white sugar weighs about 200 g. Caster sugar is roughly the same. Icing/powdered sugar is lighter (≈120 g/cup). Brown sugar firmly packed is ≈220 g.