Brown sugar, packed: Cups to Grams

Where the figure comes from

The weight on this page is from the King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart, which lists brown sugar, packed as 1 cup = 213 g. Scaled to one US cup of 236.59 ml, that is 213 g. Every other number on the page is that figure multiplied or divided.

The chart entry is for: Light or dark, packed into the cup.

grams = cups x 213

cups = grams / 213

For example, 1 1/2 cups of brown sugar, packed is 1.5 x 213 = 320 g, and 300 g is 300 / 213 = 1.41 cups.

How brown sugar, packed compares by the cup

A cup measures volume, so its weight depends on what fills it. A cup of brown sugar, packed is 6.17 percent lighter than a cup of water (227 g). It is 77.5 percent heavier than a cup of all-purpose flour (120 g).

Other sugars and syrups from the same chart, per US cup:

• Molasses: 340 g, 127 g more than brown sugar, packed
• Honey: 336 g, 123 g more than brown sugar, packed
• Maple syrup: 312 g, 99 g more than brown sugar, packed
• Corn syrup: 312 g, 99 g more than brown sugar, packed
• Granulated sugar: 198 g, 15 g less than brown sugar, packed
• Powdered sugar, unsifted: 113 g, 100 g less than brown sugar, packed

Nutrition in a cup of brown sugar, packed

These figures apply USDA FoodData Central values for sugars, brown to the 213 g cup used on this page.

The two sources do not agree on what a cup weighs. USDA lists a cup of this food at 220 g, which is 7 g more than the 213 g in the baking chart. Products and the way a cup is filled both differ, which is the reason a recipe that gives grams is easier to repeat than one that gives cups. This page uses the baking chart figure throughout.

US cup or metric cup

A US cup is 236.59 ml and a metric cup, used in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, is 250 ml. The metric cup is 5.7 percent larger, so it holds 225 g of brown sugar, packed against 213 g. Tablespoons and teaspoons on this page are US spoons. The calculator above has a switch for the cup size.