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 amount | cups | g |
|---|---|---|
| 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.