100 grams to cups

100 grams sounds like a tidy amount, but in cups it is anything from 0.29 cups of honey to 1.18 cups of cocoa powder. For the ingredient people ask about most — all-purpose flour — 100 g is 0.83 cups, a scant cup. Granulated sugar is the tidy one: exactly half a cup.

Ingredient

Amount in grams

100 g all-purpose flour = 0.83 cups

Nearest kitchen measure: about 7/8 cups · 13.3 tablespoons · 40 teaspoons (1 cup = 120 g of all-purpose flour)

100 grams of every ingredient, in cups

Ingredient	100 g in cups	Nearest kitchen measure	Tablespoons
All-purpose flour	0.83	about 7/8 cups	13.3
Bread flour	0.79	about 3/4 cups	12.6
Cake flour	0.88	about 7/8 cups	14
Granulated sugar	0.5	about 1/2 cups	8
Brown sugar	0.45	about 1/2 cups	7.3
Powdered sugar (icing sugar)	0.83	about 7/8 cups	13.3
Butter	0.44	about 1/2 cups	7
Cocoa powder	1.18	about 1 1/8 cups	18.8
Honey	0.29	about 1/3 cups	4.7
Rolled oats	1.11	about 1 1/8 cups	17.8
Cornstarch (cornflour)	0.78	about 3/4 cups	12.5
Rice, uncooked	0.54	about 1/2 cups	8.6
Milk	0.42	about 1/2 cups	6.7
Water	0.42	about 1/2 cups	6.8
Vegetable oil	0.46	about 1/2 cups	7.3
Almond flour	1.04	about 1 cups	16.7
Peanut butter	0.39	about 1/3 cups	6.2
Chopped nuts	0.83	about 7/8 cups	13.3
Shredded cheese	0.88	about 7/8 cups	14.2
Sour cream	0.43	about 1/2 cups	7
Cream cheese	0.43	about 1/2 cups	6.9

100 g is a common quantity in European recipes, and it is where cup conversion errors hurt most, because the same 100 g can be off by a factor of four between ingredients. Use the table below rather than a single rule of thumb.

Frequently asked questions

How many cups is 100 grams of flour?

100 g of all-purpose flour is 0.83 cups — about 7/8 of a cup.

How many cups is 100 grams of sugar?

100 g of granulated sugar is 0.50 cups, since sugar weighs 200 g per cup.

Why is 100 grams different in cups for every ingredient?

A cup measures volume and grams measure weight. Light, airy ingredients like cocoa powder (85 g per cup) fill a cup with little mass; dense ones like honey (340 g per cup) pack in four times as much. The gram amount is fixed — the cup amount follows the ingredient's density.

Is 100 grams a lot in baking?

It depends on the ingredient: 100 g is a modest amount — about half a cup of sugar or a scant cup of flour.