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  2. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    1 ⁄ 4 cup 2 59.1471 2 wineglasses = 1 teacup gill‡ or teacup‡ tcf. 12 cup 4 118.294 2 teacups = 1 cup cup: C 12 pint 8 236.588 2 cups = 1 pint pint: pt. 12 qt 16 473.176 2 pints = 1 quart quart: qt. 1 ⁄ 4 gal 32 946.353 2 quarts = 1 pottle‡ gallon: gal. 231 in 3: 128 3,785.41 4 quarts = 1 gal

  3. Cup (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.In the US, it is traditionally equal to one-half US pint (236.6 ml). Because actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup commonly being rounded up to 240 millilitres (legal cup), but 250 ml is also used depending on the ...

  4. Calorie - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The large calorie, food calorie, dietary calorie, kilocalorie, or kilogram calorie is defined as the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one liter of water by one degree Celsius (or one kelvin). [1] [3] The small calorie or gram calorie is defined as the amount of heat needed to cause the same increase in one milliliter of ...

  5. Sugar packet - Wikipedia

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    Some sugar packets in countries such as Poland contain 5 to 10 grams of sugar. [1] Sugar packet sizes, shapes, and weights differ by brand, region, and other factors. Because a gram of any carbohydrate contains 4 nutritional calories (also referred to as "food calories" or kilo-calories), a typical four-gram sugar packet has 16 nutritional ...

  6. Measuring cup - Wikipedia

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    Dry measure cups without a scale are sometimes used, in sets typically of ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠, ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠, ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠, and 1 cup. The units may be milliliters or fractions of a liter, or the cup (unit, with varying definitions) with its fractions (typically ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠, ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠, ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠, ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠, and ⁠ 3 / 4 ⁠), pints ...

  7. Food energy - Wikipedia

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    These estimates are for a "reference woman" who is 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall and weighs 57 kg (126 lb) and a "reference man" who is 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall and weighs 70 kg (154 lb). [19] Because caloric requirements vary by height, activity, age, pregnancy status, and other factors, the USDA created the DRI Calculator for Healthcare ...

  8. Added sugar - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, added sugar was added to the revised version of the nutrition facts label and was a given a daily value of 50 grams or 200 calories per day for a 2,000 calorie diet. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] European Food Safety Authority

  9. Glycemic index - Wikipedia

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    Graph depicting blood sugar change during a day with three meals. The glycemic (glycaemic) index (GI; / ɡ l aɪ ˈ s iː m ɪ k / [1]) is a number from 0 to 100 assigned to a food, with pure glucose arbitrarily given the value of 100, which represents the relative rise in the blood glucose level two hours after consuming that food. [2]