Grated cheese: cups to grams
Shredded cheddar or mozzarella weighs about 113 g (4 oz) per cup, loosely packed. Finely grated parmesan is lighter, around 100 g per cup when grated at home and closer to 90 g for the pre-grated powder.
1 cup grated cheese = 113 g · 1 tbsp = 7.1 g · 100 g = 0.88 cups
Based on 113 g per US cup of grated cheese, spooned and levelled. Real-world cups vary by about ±10 % for powders.
How to measure grated cheese
Do not pack. Recipes that say "4 oz cheese, grated" mean 113 g by weight, which is about a cup shredded.
Weight is the only measure that does not depend on the container or on how the ingredient was filled. The figure of 113 g per US cup comes from USDA FoodData Central; other charts differ by a few percent, which is within the spread between two cooks filling the same cup.
Cups of grated cheese to grams
| Cups | Volume | Weight | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 30 mL | 14 g | 0.5 oz |
| ¼ cup | 59 mL | 28 g | 1 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 79 mL | 38 g | 1.3 oz |
| ½ cup | 118 mL | 57 g | 2 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 158 mL | 75 g | 2.7 oz |
| ¾ cup | 177 mL | 85 g | 3 oz |
| 1 cup | 237 mL | 113 g | 4 oz |
| 1½ cups | 355 mL | 170 g | 6 oz |
| 2 cups | 473 mL | 226 g | 8 oz |
| 3 cups | 710 mL | 339 g | 12 oz |
| 4 cups | 946 mL | 452 g | 15.9 oz |
Spoons and metric measures
| Measure | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 teaspoon | 2.4 g |
| 1 tablespoon | 7.1 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 14.1 g |
| 4 tablespoons (¼ cup) | 28 g |
| Metric cup, 250 mL | 119 g |
| 100 mL | 48 g |
Grams of grated cheese to cups
| Weight | US cups | Tablespoons | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.22 cups | 3.5 tbsp | 0.88 oz |
| 50 g | 0.44 cups | 7.1 tbsp | 1.76 oz |
| 75 g | 0.66 cups | 10.6 tbsp | 2.65 oz |
| 100 g | 0.88 cups | 14.2 tbsp | 3.53 oz |
| 125 g | 1.11 cups | 17.7 tbsp | 4.41 oz |
| 150 g | 1.33 cups | 21.2 tbsp | 5.29 oz |
| 200 g | 1.77 cups | 28.3 tbsp | 7.05 oz |
| 250 g | 2.21 cups | 35.4 tbsp | 8.82 oz |
| 300 g | 2.65 cups | 42.5 tbsp | 10.58 oz |
| 400 g | 3.54 cups | 56.6 tbsp | 14.11 oz |
| 500 g | 4.42 cups | 70.8 tbsp | 17.64 oz |
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Frequently asked questions
About 113 g when spooned into the cup and levelled. Source: USDA FoodData Central.
100 g of grated cheese is 0.88 US cups, or about 14.2 tablespoons.
7.1 g, since a US tablespoon is one sixteenth of a cup. A teaspoon is 2.4 g.
No. This page uses the US cup of 236.6 mL. The metric cup of 250 mL used in Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe holds 119 g of grated cheese, about 6 % more. Old British recipes used a 284 mL cup.