Many recipes use cups instead of grams to indicate quantities. This often causes confusion, because how big should the cup be that is used for measuring? After all, a cup measures volume, not weight; a cup of water does not have the same number of grams as a cup of rice.

The weight varies depending on the density of the material.

Here is a list of the most common ingredients with conversion from cup to gram.

Note: The indication of quantity in cups for both liquids and solids is common especially in cooking recipes originally written in English. In many English-speaking countries, "cup" represents the indication of quantity for both liquids and solid foodstuffs, regardless of how big this cup actually is. This report should be understood as a paraphrase for the German household, where people are used to quantities in grams or millilitres. However, the indications in "cups" used in recipes have a generally valid equivalent in grams and millilitres, which is given in the above report.