Baking conversions
Olive Oil: cups to grams
Oils are slightly less dense than water, so a cup of olive oil weighs a little under the equivalent volume in water.
Olive Oil cups to grams
| Cups | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 27 g | 0.95 oz |
| ¼ cup | 54 g | 1.9 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 72 g | 2.54 oz |
| ½ cup | 108 g | 3.81 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 144 g | 5.08 oz |
| ¾ cup | 162 g | 5.71 oz |
| 1 cup | 216 g | 7.62 oz |
| 1½ cups | 324 g | 11.43 oz |
| 2 cups | 432 g | 15.24 oz |
| 3 cups | 648 g | 22.86 oz |
| 4 cups | 864 g | 30.48 oz |
Olive Oil grams to cups
| Grams | Cups | Tbsp |
|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.12 | 1.9 |
| 50 g | 0.23 | 3.7 |
| 100 g | 0.46 | 7.4 |
| 125 g | 0.58 | 9.3 |
| 150 g | 0.69 | 11.1 |
| 200 g | 0.93 | 14.8 |
| 250 g | 1.16 | 18.5 |
| 300 g | 1.39 | 22.2 |
| 400 g | 1.85 | 29.6 |
| 500 g | 2.31 | 37.0 |
Cup standards compared
Convert cooking volumes
The charts above cover weight. If you also need to move between cups, decilitres, millilitres and spoons, this converts any volume:
1 cup (US) in every unit
A US cup is 236.6 ml, a metric cup is 250 ml and a UK tablespoon is larger than a US one — so the system your recipe was written in matters. Pick the matching unit rather than assuming.
Questions
How many grams is 1 cup of olive oil?
One US cup of olive oil weighs 216 grams. That works out to a density of about 0.91 g per mL.
How many cups is 100 g of olive oil?
100 g of olive oil is about 0.46 cups, or roughly 7.4 tablespoons.
Why can’t I convert cups to grams directly?
A cup measures volume and a gram measures weight, so the conversion depends entirely on the ingredient. A cup of olive oil is 216 g, but a cup of honey is 340 g and a cup of cocoa powder is only 84 g.
Does the cup size matter?
Yes. A US customary cup is 236.59 mL, a US legal cup is 240 mL and a metric cup is 250 mL. Using a metric cup for olive oil gives 228 g instead of 216 g — about 6 percent more.