Long grain rice, dry: Cups to Grams

Where the figure comes from

The weight on this page is from the King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart, which lists long grain rice, dry as 1/2 cup = 99 g. Scaled to one US cup of 236.59 ml, that is 198 g. Every other number on the page is that figure multiplied or divided.

The chart entry is for: Dry, uncooked.

grams = cups x 198

cups = grams / 198

For example, 1 1/2 cups of long grain rice, dry is 1.5 x 198 = 297 g, and 300 g is 300 / 198 = 1.52 cups.

How long grain rice, dry compares by the cup

A cup measures volume, so its weight depends on what fills it. A cup of long grain rice, dry is 12.8 percent lighter than a cup of water (227 g). It is 65 percent heavier than a cup of all-purpose flour (120 g).

Other grains and starches from the same chart, per US cup:

• Cornmeal: 138 g, 60 g less than long grain rice, dry
• Cornstarch: 112 g, 86 g less than long grain rice, dry
• Rolled oats: 89 g, 109 g less than long grain rice, dry

Nutrition in a cup of long grain rice, dry

These figures apply USDA FoodData Central values for rice, white, long-grain, regular, raw, enriched to the 198 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 185 g, which is 13 g less than the 198 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 209 g of long grain rice, dry against 198 g. Tablespoons and teaspoons on this page are US spoons. The calculator above has a switch for the cup size.