HELP ON MEASUREMENTS

[Margaret]

Hello all, I have quite some difficulties for the conversions from US cups to grams, please give me an general guidelines. Thanks a lot for the help.

Margaret

[Tril]

You can't do that.... cups are a volume measurement and grams are a mass measurement. You can convert cups to l or ml, though. Or, you can convert pounds/ounces to grams. We (US) cook by volume.

Here's a conversion chart that might help you. There are lots of them online.

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/cvcookix.html

[Margaret]

Thanks for the link. I was trying to search on the net but found similar results. I'll be more specified and hopefully you can help me figure out.

For example, 1 cup flax seed meal, broccoli, spinach.. (mainly veggies) how many gram or lbs will it be? I tried to find on the market the measuring cups but we do not have those bearing US measurements and I'm afraid I'll over/undereat veggies.

Thanks again,
margaret

[Tril]

"For example, 1 cup flax seed meal, broccoli, spinach.. (mainly veggies) how many gram or lbs will it be?"

Again, it doesn't work that way. A cup of feathers will weight MUCH less than a cup of lead weight.

Are you trying to convert a recipe? Or just figure the carb count for foods? If it's the carb count, look up the foods you're eating based on grams.

Go to the USDA site... here's a link to the nutrition info for broccoli. You'll see that you can choose to base it on grams, per spear, by the cup, etc. Choose by 100 grams.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcom...bin/measure.pl

From the chart that pops up, find the total carb count (6.64g). Next, find the fiber... 2.6g. The net carb (what you need to know) is 6.64 - 2.6. The net grams for 100 grams of raw broccoli is 4.04ng.

Unless you're converting a US recipe... skip the whole cup discussion and find your carb grams based on a metric measurement.

Tril

[Tril]

Here's a link to the USDA site:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

[Margaret]

Thanks for the explanation and the link, that would be much easier for the carb count.

You're right, I'm trying to convert a receipe ..

Grazie mille.
Margaret

[merlot]

Hi, Margaret -

29.6 milliliters in an ounce; 8 oz in a cup = 8 times 29.6 = 237

My measuring cup which I would use to measure a cup of flax seed also has milliliters on it (ml) and it appears to be about 237 (apx) ml. so that should be right.

[Margaret]

Thanks for the measurment, that would be a great help.