Ginger: weights & conversions
A US cup of ginger weighs about 96 g. One weighs about 30 g. 100 g is 80 calories and 1.8 g of protein.
Also written as: fresh ginger, ginger root.
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1 cup of ginger is about 96 grams.
Cups to grams
What each measure of ginger weighs, from the cup weight above.
| Volume | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 96 g | 3.39 oz |
| 3/4 cup | 72 g | |
| 2/3 cup | 64 g | |
| 1/2 cup | 48 g | |
| 1/3 cup | 32 g | |
| 1/4 cup | 24 g | |
| 1 tablespoon | 6 g | |
| 1 teaspoon | 2 g |
Weight per piece
What a recipe means when it counts ginger instead of weighing it.
| Count | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 ginger | 30 g | 1.06 oz |
| 2 gingers | 60 g | |
| 3 gingers | 90 g | |
| 4 gingers | 120 g | |
| 6 gingers | 180 g | |
| 12 gingers | 360 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) | 80 | 1.8 g | 0.75 g | 17.8 g | 2 g | 13 mg |
| Per cup (96 g) | 77 | 1.73 g | 0.72 g | 17.1 g | 1.92 g | 12 mg |
| Per tablespoon (6 g) | 5 | 0.11 g | 0.05 g | 1.07 g | 0.12 g | 1 mg |
| Per ginger (30 g) | 24 | 0.54 g | 0.22 g | 5.34 g | 0.6 g | 4 mg |
| Per 4 oz (113 g) | 91 | 2.04 g | 0.85 g | 20.2 g | 2.27 g | 15 mg |
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Common questions
- How many grams are in a cup of ginger?
- One US cup of ginger weighs about 96 g (3.39 oz). A tablespoon is about 6 g and a teaspoon about 2 g.
- How many cups is 100 g of ginger?
- 100 g of ginger is about 1.04 cups — near enough to 1 cup in a measuring cup.
- How much does one ginger weigh?
- One ginger weighs about 30 g (1.06 oz), so a pound is roughly 15 of them.
- How many calories are in ginger?
- Ginger has about 80 calories per 100 g, which works out to roughly 77 calories a cup.

