Vegetables
Sweet potato: weights & conversions
A US cup of sweet potato weighs about 133 g. One weighs about 130 g. 100 g is 86 calories and 1.6 g of protein.
Also written as: sweet potatoes, yams.
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1 cup of sweet potato is about 133 grams.
Cups to grams
What each measure of sweet potato weighs, from the cup weight above.
| Volume | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 133 g | 4.69 oz |
| 3/4 cup | 99.8 g | |
| 2/3 cup | 88.7 g | |
| 1/2 cup | 66.5 g | |
| 1/3 cup | 44.3 g | |
| 1/4 cup | 33.3 g | |
| 1 tablespoon | 8.31 g | |
| 1 teaspoon | 2.77 g |
Weight per piece
What a recipe means when it counts sweet potato instead of weighing it.
| Count | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 sweet potato | 130 g | 4.59 oz |
| 2 sweet potatos | 260 g | |
| 3 sweet potatos | 390 g | |
| 4 sweet potatos | 520 g | |
| 6 sweet potatos | 780 g | |
| 12 sweet potatos | 1560 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) | 86 | 1.6 g | 0.05 g | 20.1 g | 3 g | 55 mg |
| Per cup (133 g) | 114 | 2.13 g | 0.07 g | 26.7 g | 3.99 g | 73 mg |
| Per tablespoon (8.31 g) | 7 | 0.13 g | 0 g | 1.67 g | 0.25 g | 5 mg |
| Per sweet potato (130 g) | 112 | 2.08 g | 0.07 g | 26.1 g | 3.9 g | 72 mg |
| Per 4 oz (113 g) | 98 | 1.81 g | 0.06 g | 22.8 g | 3.4 g | 62 mg |
If you have run out
- Butternut squash, in a roast or a mash.
Mentioned in our guides
Blog posts that talk about sweet potato along the way.
Common questions
- How many grams are in a cup of sweet potato?
- One US cup of sweet potato weighs about 133 g (4.69 oz). A tablespoon is about 8.31 g and a teaspoon about 2.77 g.
- How many cups is 100 g of sweet potato?
- 100 g of sweet potato is about 0.75 cups — near enough to 3/4 of a cup in a measuring cup.
- How much does one sweet potato weigh?
- One sweet potato weighs about 130 g (4.59 oz), so a pound is roughly 3 of them.
- How many calories are in sweet potato?
- Sweet potato has about 86 calories per 100 g, which works out to roughly 114 calories a cup.
- What can I use instead of sweet potato?
- Butternut squash, in a roast or a mash.