[Tiffany123]

I am leaving town in the morning, and I really want to measure out some baggies with grapes in them so I know how much I am eating at a time.

I have a food scale. I know that one cup is 8 ounces, but does that hold true when measuring grapes? If I throw them in the scale, is 8 ounces a cup of grapes??? Or should I just try to cram them into a measuring cup?


Help!!
Tiffany

[MrsDomino]

I've heard that to get an accurate measurement for something like grapes that you should take a 2 cup measurable container, put 1 cup of water in it then add grapes until it reaches the 2 cup volume. I guess you could always then drain the grapes and measure them on your scale and go from there then. Good Luck.

[Felicia]

Tiffany, if my memory serves me right, one cup of grapes or 20 grapes is equal to 1 point.

I love to wash them and put them in a ziploc in the freezer. YUMMY!!!

[leader]

HI. No, a cup of grapes is not 8 ounces. People often confuse weight with volume which are NOT the same. 1 cup, the VOLUME measure of a liquid, will weigh 8 oz if the liquid is water.

One cup, of a solid mass, depending on interstitial spaces (the empty space created by the grapes, or for example, the hollows created by pasta like ziti) will not weigh 8 ounces, so you have to be careful about measuring things.

When a serving says "1 cup" they mean the volume. If you look closely at the books, they often show a volume measure in conjunction with a weight -- Melon, 6 oz or 1 cup.

The way to "play this game" is to take a bunch of stuff, and a liquid and dry measuring cup (the kind you'd use to measure a cup of flour or sugar) and fill them with foods of different densities -- and then weigh them (of course subtracting from the total the weight of your measuring device.) 1 cup of rice cooked and raw will weigh different from each other; 1 cup of sugar weighs twice what a cup of flour weighs; 1 cup of ziti weighs less than one cup of pastina or ditalini. and so on.

So, again, don't mistake weight measurements for volume. One cup of heavy cream weighs less than 1 cup of skim milk -- but they are still one cup of volume....