Rice (uncooked): cups to grams
Uncooked long-grain white rice weighs about 185 g per cup; short-grain and arborio are denser at 200 g, brown rice about 190 g. A cup of uncooked rice gives roughly 3 cups cooked, which is why rice cooker cups (180 mL, 150 g) are smaller than a US cup.
1 cup rice (uncooked) = 185 g · 1 tbsp = 11.6 g · 100 g = 0.54 cups
Based on 185 g per US cup of rice (uncooked), spooned and levelled. Real-world cups vary by about ±10 % for powders.
How to measure rice (uncooked)
Scoop and level. A rice cooker "cup" is 180 mL, not 236 mL: 2 rice-cooker cups are 1.5 US cups.
Weight is the only measure that does not depend on the container or on how the ingredient was filled. The figure of 185 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 rice (uncooked) to grams
| Cups | Volume | Weight | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 30 mL | 23 g | 0.8 oz |
| ¼ cup | 59 mL | 46 g | 1.6 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 79 mL | 62 g | 2.2 oz |
| ½ cup | 118 mL | 93 g | 3.3 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 158 mL | 123 g | 4.4 oz |
| ¾ cup | 177 mL | 139 g | 4.9 oz |
| 1 cup | 237 mL | 185 g | 6.5 oz |
| 1½ cups | 355 mL | 278 g | 9.8 oz |
| 2 cups | 473 mL | 370 g | 13.1 oz |
| 3 cups | 710 mL | 555 g | 19.6 oz |
| 4 cups | 946 mL | 740 g | 26.1 oz |
Spoons and metric measures
| Measure | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 teaspoon | 3.9 g |
| 1 tablespoon | 11.6 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 23.1 g |
| 4 tablespoons (¼ cup) | 46 g |
| Metric cup, 250 mL | 195 g |
| 100 mL | 78 g |
Grams of rice (uncooked) to cups
| Weight | US cups | Tablespoons | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.14 cups | 2.2 tbsp | 0.88 oz |
| 50 g | 0.27 cups | 4.3 tbsp | 1.76 oz |
| 75 g | 0.41 cups | 6.5 tbsp | 2.65 oz |
| 100 g | 0.54 cups | 8.6 tbsp | 3.53 oz |
| 125 g | 0.68 cups | 10.8 tbsp | 4.41 oz |
| 150 g | 0.81 cups | 13 tbsp | 5.29 oz |
| 200 g | 1.08 cups | 17.3 tbsp | 7.05 oz |
| 250 g | 1.35 cups | 21.6 tbsp | 8.82 oz |
| 300 g | 1.62 cups | 25.9 tbsp | 10.58 oz |
| 400 g | 2.16 cups | 34.6 tbsp | 14.11 oz |
| 500 g | 2.7 cups | 43.2 tbsp | 17.64 oz |
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Frequently asked questions
About 185 g when spooned into the cup and levelled. Source: USDA FoodData Central.
100 g of rice (uncooked) is 0.54 US cups, or about 8.6 tablespoons.
11.6 g, since a US tablespoon is one sixteenth of a cup. A teaspoon is 3.9 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 195 g of rice (uncooked), about 6 % more. Old British recipes used a 284 mL cup.