Kitchen converter / food coloring
Food coloring: cups to grams
One US cup of food coloring weighs about 240 grams. Convert any amount below.
1 cup of food coloring=240 g
Weights are approximate — see the note on scooping below.
Food coloring conversion table
| Measure | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 240 g | 8.5 oz |
| ¾ cup | 180 g | 6.3 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 160 g | 5.6 oz |
| ½ cup | 120 g | 4.2 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 80 g | 2.8 oz |
| ¼ cup | 60 g | 2.1 oz |
| 1 tbsp | 15 g | 0.53 oz |
| 1 tsp | 5 g | 0.18 oz |
Whose cup?
A cup is not one size. The United States measures 240 ml, the UK, Canada and New Zealand use a 250 ml metric cup, and Japan's カップ is 200 ml — so the same recipe line can mean a fifth more or less flour depending on where it was written. Australia shares the 250 ml cup but uses a 20 ml tablespoon, the only one of its size.
This page is currently showing US cups. Switch standards in the converter above and every number on the page follows.
Why weighing beats scooping
These figures describe food coloring measured the usual way, but a cup is a container, not a quantity. Flour packed tightly into the cup can outweigh the same cup loosely spooned by a fifth — which is the single most common reason a baked recipe comes out differently than it did last time. If you own a scale, the gram column is the one to trust.
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Food coloring in other languages
Useful when you are cooking from a recipe written somewhere else — these are the names the same ingredient goes by in the languages Gather supports.
- English food coloring
- German Lebensmittelfarbe
- Spanish colorante alimentario
- French colorant alimentaire
- French (Quebec) colorant alimentaire
- Italian colorante alimentare
- Japanese 食用色素
- Portuguese (Brazil) corante alimentício
- Portuguese (Portugal) corante alimentar
What ingredients are called elsewhere →