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This page has a section titled "Cups, Not Calories".

It hurts my soul that anybody producing a table such as that is using something as vague as a "cup" in their calculations.




The unit of a "cup" there is sourced from the US government, and thus it's well known to be a volumetric measurement that is equal to 1/672 of a standard oil barrel's volume. It's not vague for US customers at least.

It hurts my soul that it's using a volumetric measurement for leafy food, like if you cut lettuce leaves into pieces, they have the same nutrients but take up way less space, so 3 cups of roughly cut lettuce leaves is different from 3 cups of finely chopped lettuce leaves, which is also different from 3 cups of uncut lettuce leaves. Just give it to us in mass or calories please (like grams or fractions of an oil barrel's mass, or fraction of a barrel of oil's calories and nutrients).


I think "cup" is one of these American units, it's about 236ml


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit).

American legal cup ? metric cup ? Canadian cup ? or one of the other ones.

Even if you narrow it to just the roughly the US you still have 4 + metric , so 5 different options.

and that doesn't even account for people just using the cup they have to hand.

It's not a rant at you, it's frustration with non-specific, arbitrary units.


Cups are 236.6 ml. 8 fluid ounces.

But, wow apparently the FDA rounds cups in nutrition labeling to be exactly 240ml “legal cup”, which I agree is super annoying. It’s 1.4% more.

“For purposes of nutrition labeling, 1 cup means 240 mL, 1 tablespoon means 15 mL, 1 teaspoon means 5 mL, 1 fluid ounce means 30 mL, and 1 ounce means 28 g (21 CFR 101.9(b)(5)(viii))”


WAIT.

US cups and metric cups are different?


Technically yes and that confusion is exactly my point.




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