Conversion Factors

pertaining to diet and food

Tables for weight-to-weight,
volume-to-volume, and more.
Units of measure include:
pounds, ounces, grams, kilograms,
tablespoons, teaspoons, milliliters,
cups, pints, quarts, gallons,
paper clips, fists, calories
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TABLES below:

WEIGHT-to-WEIGHT     VOLUME-to-VOLUME

VOLUME-to-WEIGHT
(as seen on food packaging,
for various foods)

VOLUME-to-FamiliarItems     WEIGHT-to-FamiliarItems

(where FamiliarItems are fist,
card deck, paper clip, thumb, etc.)

FOODS-to-WEIGHT
(weight of various fruits & veggies)

GRAMS-to-CALORIES
(for various nutrient types)

! Note !
These tables may be re-organized and/or re-formatted
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English-to-Metric :

  • 1 ounce = 28.35 grams

  • 1 pound = 0.4536 kilograms = 453.6 grams

Metric-to-English :

  • 1 gram = 0.03527 ounce

  • 1 kg = 2.2046 pounds = 35.27 ounces

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English-to-Metric :

  • 1 fl. oz. = 29.573 ml

  • 1 U.S. pint = 16 fl. oz. = 473.2 ml

  • 1 U.S. quart = 2 pints = 32 fl. oz. = 946.35 ml

  • 1 gallon = 4 quarts = 128 fl. oz. = 3,785 ml

  • 1 teaspoon = 1/6 or 0.166 fluid oz = 4.9 ml

  • 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons = 0.5 fluid oz = 14.8 ml

  • 2 tablespoons = 1.0 oz = 29.6 ml

  • 1 cup = 16 tablespoons = 8 fl. oz. = 236.6 ml

  • 1 pint = 2 cups = 16 fl. oz. = 473.2 ml

  • 1 quart = 2 pints = 32 fl. oz. = 946.3 ml = 0.946 liters

Metric-to-English :

  • 1 ml = 0.033814 fl. oz.

  • 1 ml = 0.0021 U.S. pint

  • 1 ml = 0.00106 U.S. quart

  • 1 liter = 1.06 U.S. quart

Metric-to-Metric :

  • 1 liter = 1 cubic tenth-of-a-meter (a cubic decimeter)
    = 1,000 cubic hundredths-of-a-meter
    = 1,000 cubic centimeters

  • 1 ml = 1-thousandth of a liter
    = 1 cubic centimeter (cc)
    = 1 cubic hundredth-of-a-meter
    = 1 cubic tenth-of-a-tenth-of-a-meter
    = 1-thousandth of a cubic tenth-of-a-meter

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TABLESPOONs-to-GRAMs :

  • 1 teaspoon = 4.9 ml of water = 4.9 grams

  • 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons = 14.8 ml of water = 14.8 grams

  • 2 tablespoons = 29.6 ml of water = 29.6 grams

  • 1 cup = 16 tablespoons = 8 fl. oz. = 236.6 ml of water = 236.6 grams = 0.2366 kg

  • 1 tablespoon of KETCHUP ~ 17 grams

  • 1 tablespoon of SALSA ~ 16 grams

  • 1 tablespoon of BBQ SAUCE ~ 17 grams

  • 1 tablespoon of salad DRESSING ~ 15 to 18 grams

  • 1 tablespoon of NUTS ~ 10 grams
    (lower mainly due to air gaps)

CUPs-to-GRAMs :

  • 1 cup of APPLE SAUCE ~ 252 grams

  • 1 cup of BERRIES ~ 160 grams

  • 1 cup of DRIED FRUIT ~ 160 grams

  • 1 cup of NUTS ~ 136 to 160 grams

  • 1 cup of PEAS ~ 128 grams

  • 1 cup of LIGHT CEREAL (Corn Flakes) ~ 30 grams

  • 1 cup of FRUIT CEREAL (Raisin Bran) ~ 59 grams

  • 1 cup of HEAVY CEREAL (Grape Nuts) ~ 116 grams

METRIC-to-GRAMs :

  • 1 ml of water = 1 gram
    ( since the density of water is 1 gm/ml )

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TABLESPOONs-to-familiar-items :

  • 2 tablespoons ~ a medium-adult's thumb

  • 3 tablespoons of NUTS ~ a layer covering the palm of medium-adult's hand

TEASPOONs-to-familiar-items :

  • 1 teaspoon ~ tip of medium-adult thumb

CUPs-to-familiar-items :

  • 1 CUP ~ a medium-adult's FIST

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GRAMs-to-familiar-items :

  • 1 GRAM ~ weight of a typical PAPERCLIP

    "Common household items that weigh approximately one gram include a paperclip, the cap of a ballpoint pen, a stick of gum, a U.S. currency bill, a quarter teaspoon of sugar, a [large] raisin and a thumbtack."

OUNCEs-to-familiar-items :

  • 3 oz. MEAT ~ a cassette tape OR deck of cards

  • 1.5 oz. of CHEESE ~ 3 standard size dominos

  • 1 oz. NUTS ~ a layer on the palm of one's hand
    (or a film canister, which is getting rare)

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FoodPortions-to-GRAMs :

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GRAMs-to-CALORIES :

  • 1 GRAM CARBOHYDRATES contains 3.75 CALORIES

    Note:
    Carbohydrates are sugars and/or starches (chains of sugars) --- plus fiber, if any.

  • 1 GRAM PROTEIN contains 4 CALORIES

  • 1 GRAM FAT contains 9 CALORIES

  • 1 GRAM ALCOHOL contains 7 CALORIES

This calorie data was found at
www.slp-slimming.co.uk/calories-in-food.html
in 2006. Gone?

Note that 'calories' are a unit of heat, not weight.
So 'calories' are a rather rough measure of potential
weight gain. They can be misleading because they
emphasize fats but de-emphasize sugars in your diet.

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Page history:

Page was created 2006 Mar 20.

Page was changed 2012 May 04.
(Some reformatting.)

Page was changed 2019 Jul 28.
(Added css and javascript to try to handle text-size for smartphones, esp. in portrait orientation. Specified image width in percents to size the image according to width of the browser window. Some reformatting of text.)