Grams of orange juice to cups runs on one number, 0.0040322581 cups per gram. It is a measured property of this ingredient rather than a defined conversion, which is why a generic volume-to-weight tool cannot give you it.
Water is the yardstick: 1 mL of it weighs 1 g. Orange juice comes in at 1.0482 g per mL, or 104.8% of water, which is why a cup of it is 248 g rather than 236.6 g. Volume and weight only line up for water, and only in metric.
A cup of orange juice is 248 g when it is measured the standard way, but how it gets into the cup changes the answer: between about 246.8 g and 250.5 g covers the range from lightly spooned to firmly packed. That 1% spread is larger than most of the adjustments recipes fuss over, and it disappears entirely the moment the ingredient is weighed instead.
Grams are the unit this conversion is really for. A domestic scale resolves to a gram, which is 0.403% of a cup of orange juice, so weighing gets an accuracy no measuring cup can reach. A 500 g pack of it is 2.016 cups, and a 1 kg pack 4.032.
How the figure is arrived at: The dissolved sugar puts it just above water, which is why a hydrometer can read juice strength at all.
The formula
grams- The amount of orange juice you are converting, in grams
0.00403225806452- Cups per gram for orange juice, from its density of 1.0482 g/mL
cups- The equivalent quantity in cups
How it works, step by step
- Enter the quantity in grams.
- It is multiplied by 0.00403225806452, the cups-per-gram figure for orange juice.
- The result appears in cups, with a second reading in tbsp beneath it.
- Use the measure table if you want a standard recipe quantity rather than a number you type in.
Worked examples
50 g of orange juice in cups
50 g of orange juice weighs out at 0.201613 cups. Divide 0.201613 by 0.0040322581 and you get back to 50 g, which is the quickest check that the factor is the right way up.
150 g of orange juice in cups
Take 150 g of orange juice: 150 × 0.0040322581 gives 0.604839 cups. Doubling the batch takes it to 1.20968 cups, because the relationship is a straight proportion once the density is known.
500 g of orange juice in cups
A recipe calling for 500 g of orange juice needs 2.01613 cups on the scale. The arithmetic is 500 × 0.0040322581 = 2.016129, and halving the recipe halves the weight to 1.00806 cups.
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Frequently asked questions
How many cups are in 1 g of orange juice?
One gram of orange juice is 0.0040322581 cups. Half that quantity is 0.00201613 cups and double it is 0.00806452 cups, so the figure scales straight up and down — there is no offset in this conversion, only the factor.
Why is a cup of orange juice not 236 g like water?
Because weight per cup depends on what is in the cup. Orange juice has a density of 1.0482 g per mL where water has 1.00, so a cup of it weighs 248 g rather than 236.6 g. That is a difference of 11.4 g per cup, and it is the reason a single volume-to-weight factor cannot be applied to every ingredient.
Does how I measure it change the weight?
Barely. Orange juice does not compress, so a cup of it is 248 g however it is poured — within about 1%, which is inside the accuracy of a domestic scale. This is the group where measuring by volume is defensible.
Is a fluid ounce of orange juice the same as an ounce?
No. A fluid ounce is a volume — one eighth of a US cup, 29.57 mL — and an ounce is a weight. One fluid ounce of orange juice weighs 1.093 oz, so the two readings differ by 9.35%. They coincide only for something with the density of water, and then only roughly.
Is this a US cup or a metric cup?
US customary: 236.59 mL, which is the cup every US recipe means. A metric cup is 250 mL, so the same cup of orange juice would weigh 262.06 g instead of 248 g — 14.1 g more, or 5.67%. Australian and some European recipes use the metric cup, and the difference is large enough to matter in baking.
Do I need a scale for this, or will measuring cups do?
A scale, if the result matters. Volume measuring carries a spread of about 1% for orange juice — roughly 2.48 g on a 248 g cup — while a domestic scale is accurate to a gram or two. For anything where the ratio of ingredients drives the outcome, bread and pastry above all, weigh it.
How much does 2 cup of orange juice weigh?
2 cup of orange juice comes to 496 g, or 496 grams. This page runs that calculation in reverse — enter a weight and it returns the volume — and the cups-to-grams page does it in the direction the question is usually asked.
Orange juice in grams and cups
| Grams | Cups | Unrounded |
|---|---|---|
| 5 g | 0.0201613 cup | 0.02016129032 |
| 10 g | 0.0403226 cup | 0.04032258065 |
| 25 g | 0.100806 cup | 0.1008064516 |
| 50 g | 0.201613 cup | 0.2016129032 |
| 100 g | 0.403226 cup | 0.4032258065 |
| 125 g | 0.504032 cup | 0.5040322581 |
| 150 g | 0.604839 cup | 0.6048387097 |
| 200 g | 0.806452 cup | 0.8064516129 |
| 250 g | 1.00806 cup | 1.008064516 |
| 300 g | 1.20968 cup | 1.209677419 |
| 500 g | 2.01613 cup | 2.016129032 |
| 1000 g | 4.03226 cup | 4.032258065 |
Based on 248 g per cup of orange juice. One gram of orange juice is 0.0040322581 cups.
| Measure | Grams | Ounces | Millilitres |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 248 g | 8.75 oz | 236.6 mL |
| 3/4 cup | 186 g | 6.56 oz | 177.4 mL |
| 2/3 cup | 165.3 g | 5.83 oz | 157.7 mL |
| 1/2 cup | 124 g | 4.37 oz | 118.3 mL |
| 1/3 cup | 82.67 g | 2.92 oz | 78.86 mL |
| 1/4 cup | 62 g | 2.19 oz | 59.15 mL |
| 1 tbsp | 15.5 g | 0.547 oz | 14.79 mL |
| 1 tsp | 5.167 g | 0.182 oz | 4.929 mL |
US customary measures: 1 cup = 236.59 mL, 1 tbsp = 14.79 mL, 1 tsp = 4.93 mL.
| Ingredient | Grams per cup | Ounces per cup | Density (g/mL) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buttermilk | 245 g | 8.642 oz | 1.036 |
| Plain yogurt | 245 g | 8.642 oz | 1.036 |
| Tomato sauce | 245 g | 8.642 oz | 1.036 |
| Orange juice (this page) | 248 g | 8.748 oz | 1.048 |
| Evaporated milk | 252 g | 8.889 oz | 1.065 |
| Peanut butter | 258 g | 9.101 oz | 1.091 |
| Sweetened condensed milk | 306 g | 10.79 oz | 1.293 |
Ordered by weight. The spread across this group is why a single generic cups-to-grams factor cannot work.