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White onion: cups to grams

One US cup of white onion weighs about 160 grams. Convert any amount below.

1 cup of white onion=160 g

US cup · 240 ml = 160 g · 5.6 oz
Fractions ok
By volume
160 g / cup Fruit & vegetables by the cup

Weights are approximate — see the note on scooping below.

White onion conversion table

Measured in US cup — United States — 240 ml cup, 15 ml tablespoon.
Measure Grams Ounces
1 cup 160 g 5.6 oz
¾ cups 120 g 4.2 oz
⅔ cups 105 g 3.8 oz
½ cups 80 g 2.8 oz
⅓ cups 53 g 1.9 oz
¼ cups 40 g 1.4 oz
1 tbsp 10 g 0.35 oz
1 tsp 3.3 g 0.12 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 cup. Switch standards in the converter above and every number on the page follows.

Why weighing beats scooping

These figures describe white onion 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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White onion 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.

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Weigh something similar

The nearest neighbours of white onion — same kind of ingredient, different weight per cup.

Ingredient Per US cup
Onion 160 g
Cipollini onion 160 g
Green onion 100 g
Pearl onion 160 g
Red onion 160 g
Spring onion 100 g

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