Vegetable oil: cups to grams
Oils are lighter than water: a cup of vegetable, canola or sunflower oil weighs about 218 g, olive oil 216 g, coconut oil (liquid) 218 g. A recipe that gives oil in millilitres is not converting to grams at 1:1, the difference is 8 %.
1 cup vegetable oil = 218 g · 1 tbsp = 13.6 g · 100 g = 0.46 cups
Based on 218 g per US cup of vegetable oil, spooned and levelled. Real-world cups vary by about ±10 % for powders.
How to measure vegetable oil
Measure in a liquid measuring cup at eye level, or weigh. 1 tablespoon of oil is 13.6 g, 1 US cup 218 g, 250 mL metric cup 230 g.
Weight is the only measure that does not depend on the container or on how the ingredient was filled. The figure of 218 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 vegetable oil to grams
| Cups | Volume | Weight | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 30 mL | 27 g | 1 oz |
| ¼ cup | 59 mL | 55 g | 1.9 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 79 mL | 73 g | 2.6 oz |
| ½ cup | 118 mL | 109 g | 3.8 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 158 mL | 145 g | 5.1 oz |
| ¾ cup | 177 mL | 164 g | 5.8 oz |
| 1 cup | 237 mL | 218 g | 7.7 oz |
| 1½ cups | 355 mL | 327 g | 11.5 oz |
| 2 cups | 473 mL | 436 g | 15.4 oz |
| 3 cups | 710 mL | 654 g | 23.1 oz |
| 4 cups | 946 mL | 872 g | 30.8 oz |
Spoons and metric measures
| Measure | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 teaspoon | 4.5 g |
| 1 tablespoon | 13.6 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 27.3 g |
| 4 tablespoons (¼ cup) | 55 g |
| Metric cup, 250 mL | 230 g |
| 100 mL | 92 g |
Grams of vegetable oil to cups
| Weight | US cups | Tablespoons | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.11 cups | 1.8 tbsp | 0.88 oz |
| 50 g | 0.23 cups | 3.7 tbsp | 1.76 oz |
| 75 g | 0.34 cups | 5.5 tbsp | 2.65 oz |
| 100 g | 0.46 cups | 7.3 tbsp | 3.53 oz |
| 125 g | 0.57 cups | 9.2 tbsp | 4.41 oz |
| 150 g | 0.69 cups | 11 tbsp | 5.29 oz |
| 200 g | 0.92 cups | 14.7 tbsp | 7.05 oz |
| 250 g | 1.15 cups | 18.3 tbsp | 8.82 oz |
| 300 g | 1.38 cups | 22 tbsp | 10.58 oz |
| 400 g | 1.83 cups | 29.4 tbsp | 14.11 oz |
| 500 g | 2.29 cups | 36.7 tbsp | 17.64 oz |
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Frequently asked questions
About 218 g when spooned into the cup and levelled. Source: USDA FoodData Central.
100 g of vegetable oil is 0.46 US cups, or about 7.3 tablespoons.
13.6 g, since a US tablespoon is one sixteenth of a cup. A teaspoon is 4.5 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 230 g of vegetable oil, about 6 % more. Old British recipes used a 284 mL cup.