Cinnamon: weights & conversions
A US cup of cinnamon weighs about 115 g. One weighs about 2 g. 100 g is 247 calories and 4 g of protein.
Also written as: ground cinnamon, cinnamon sticks, cinnamon stick.
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1 cup of cinnamon is about 115 grams.
Cups to grams
What each measure of cinnamon weighs, from the cup weight above.
| Volume | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 115 g | 4.06 oz |
| 3/4 cup | 86.3 g | |
| 2/3 cup | 76.7 g | |
| 1/2 cup | 57.5 g | |
| 1/3 cup | 38.3 g | |
| 1/4 cup | 28.8 g | |
| 1 tablespoon | 7.19 g | |
| 1 teaspoon | 2.4 g |
Weight per piece
What a recipe means when it counts cinnamon instead of weighing it.
| Count | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cinnamon | 2 g | 0.07 oz |
| 2 cinnamons | 4 g | |
| 3 cinnamons | 6 g | |
| 4 cinnamons | 8 g | |
| 6 cinnamons | 12 g | |
| 12 cinnamons | 24 g |
Ounces and pounds
The weights an older recipe card is most likely to use.
| Weight | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 oz | 28.3 g | |
| 4 oz (1/4 lb) | 113 g | |
| 8 oz (1/2 lb) | 227 g | |
| 1 lb | 454 g | |
| 100 g | 100 g |
Nutrition
Per 100 g of edible portion, transcribed from USDA reference data, and scaled to the measures above.
| Measure | Calories | Protein | Fat | Carbs | Fiber | Sodium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per 100 g (100 g) | 247 | 4 g | 1.2 g | 80.6 g | 53.1 g | 10 mg |
| Per cup (115 g) | 284 | 4.6 g | 1.38 g | 92.7 g | 61.1 g | 12 mg |
| Per tablespoon (7.19 g) | 18 | 0.29 g | 0.09 g | 5.79 g | 3.82 g | 1 mg |
| Per cinnamon (2 g) | 5 | 0.08 g | 0.02 g | 1.61 g | 1.06 g | 0 mg |
| Per 4 oz (113 g) | 280 | 4.54 g | 1.36 g | 91.4 g | 60.2 g | 11 mg |
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Common questions
- How many grams are in a cup of cinnamon?
- One US cup of cinnamon weighs about 115 g (4.06 oz). A tablespoon is about 7.19 g and a teaspoon about 2.4 g.
- How many cups is 100 g of cinnamon?
- 100 g of cinnamon is about 0.87 cups — near enough to 7/8 of a cup in a measuring cup.
- How much does one cinnamon weigh?
- One cinnamon weighs about 2 g (0.07 oz), so a pound is roughly 227 of them.
- How many calories are in cinnamon?
- Cinnamon has about 247 calories per 100 g, which works out to roughly 284 calories a cup.