Kitchen converter / light soy sauce
Light soy sauce: cups to grams
One US cup of light soy sauce weighs about 255 grams. Convert any amount below.
1 cup of light soy sauce=255 g
Weights are approximate — see the note on scooping below.
Light soy sauce conversion table
| Measure | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 255 g | 9 oz |
| ¾ cup | 190 g | 6.7 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 170 g | 6 oz |
| ½ cup | 130 g | 4.5 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 85 g | 3 oz |
| ¼ cup | 64 g | 2.2 oz |
| 1 tbsp | 16 g | 0.56 oz |
| 1 tsp | 5.3 g | 0.19 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 light soy sauce 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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Light soy sauce 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 light soy sauce
- German helle Sojasauce
- Spanish salsa de soja clara
- French sauce soja claire
- French (Quebec) sauce soja claire
- Italian salsa di soia chiara
- Japanese 薄口醤油
- Portuguese (Brazil) shoyu claro
- Portuguese (Portugal) molho de soja claro
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