Pound Of Sugar To Cups

How Many Cups in One Pound of Saccharide?

| Last update: 06 April 2022

If y'all're wondering how many cups there are in a pound of granulated carbohydrate, chocolate-brown sugar or powdered sugar, we've got you covered.

1 pound of granulated saccharide contains effectually ii ¼ cups.
1 pound of dark-brown sugar (light or night) contains approximately ii ⅓ cups when firmly packed. Recipes commonly phone call for a firmly-packed cup with this.
1 pound of powdered sugar contains around 3 ¾ cups (unsifted).
one pound of raw cane sugar contains around 2 cups.

These measurements assume you lot're spooning sugar into your measuring cup and levelling it off with a knife (without compacting). Scooping sugar from your jar or bag with your cup may upshot in varying measurements. Estimates are for a standard US cup.

We've set out a series of pound to loving cup measurements for different types of saccharide in reference tables below. You tin can too catechumen betwixt cups and pounds for a multitude of ingredients with our handy pounds and cups converter.

Cups in a pound of granulated and brown sugar

Let'southward accept a expect at the measurements for each type of sugar. You may wish to know that we too have an article looking at pounds and cups of flour.

Cups in a pound of granulated sugar

Pounds of Sugar	Cups (US)
1/ii lb	ane.13 cups
one lb	2.25 cups
2 lb	four.5 cups
v lb	11.25 cups
ten lb	22.5 cups

Cups in a pound of brown saccharide (packed)

Pounds of Sugar	Cups (US)
one/two lb	1.17 cups
1 lb	two.33 cups
2 lb	4.66 cups
five lb	11.65 cups
10 lb	23.3 cups

Cups in a pound of powdered sugar (unsifted)

Pounds of Sugar	Cups (Us)
i/2 lb	ane.88 cups
ane lb	three.75 cups
2 lb	7.v cups
five lb	xviii.75 cups
10 lb	37.five cups

Cups in a pound of raw pikestaff sugar

Pounds of Sugar	Cups (US)
1/2 lb	one cups
1 lb	ii cups
2 lb	iv cups
v lb	10 cups
10 lb	20 cups

Sugar densities were sourced from: The Cake Bible (Rose Levy Beranbaum, 1988), Modern Domestic and the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United nations.

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