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Olives: weights & conversions

A US cup of olives weighs about 135 g. One weighs about 4 g. 100 g is 145 calories and 1 g of protein.

Also written as: green olives, black olives, kalamata olives.

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1 cup of olives is about 135 grams.

Cups to grams

What each measure of olives weighs, from the cup weight above.

olives volume conversions
VolumeGramsOunces
1 cup135 g4.76 oz
3/4 cup101 g
2/3 cup90 g
1/2 cup67.5 g
1/3 cup45 g
1/4 cup33.8 g
1 tablespoon8.44 g
1 teaspoon2.81 g

Weight per piece

What a recipe means when it counts olives instead of weighing it.

olives count conversions
CountGramsOunces
1 olive4 g0.14 oz
2 olives8 g
3 olives12 g
4 olives16 g
6 olives24 g
12 olives48 g

Ounces and pounds

The weights an older recipe card is most likely to use.

olives weight conversions
WeightGramsOunces
1 oz28.3 g
4 oz (1/4 lb)113 g
8 oz (1/2 lb)227 g
1 lb454 g
100 g100 g

Nutrition

Per 100 g of edible portion, transcribed from USDA reference data, and scaled to the measures above.

Nutrition for olives by measure
MeasureCaloriesProteinFatCarbsFiberSodium
Per 100 g (100 g)1451 g15.3 g3.8 g3.3 g1556 mg
Per cup (135 g)1961.35 g20.7 g5.13 g4.46 g2101 mg
Per tablespoon (8.44 g)120.08 g1.29 g0.32 g0.28 g131 mg
Per olive (4 g)60.04 g0.61 g0.15 g0.13 g62 mg
Per 4 oz (113 g)1641.13 g17.3 g4.31 g3.74 g1764 mg

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Common questions

How many grams are in a cup of olives?
One US cup of olives weighs about 135 g (4.76 oz). A tablespoon is about 8.44 g and a teaspoon about 2.81 g.
How many cups is 100 g of olives?
100 g of olives is about 0.74 cups — near enough to 3/4 of a cup in a measuring cup.
How much does one olive weigh?
One olive weighs about 4 g (0.14 oz), so a pound is roughly 113 of them.
How many calories are in olives?
Olives has about 145 calories per 100 g, which works out to roughly 196 calories a cup.

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