200 grams of sugar in cups

Granulated sugar lands on a cup where almost nothing else does: 200 grams is one US cup, near enough exactly, since a cup weighs 198 g. Sugar is dense and even, which is why the number falls so close.

Two hundred grams is a US cup

Granulated sugar pours the same for everyone, 198 g to the US cup, so 200 g lands within two grams of a level cup, 1 by our rounding. That makes sugar the one dry ingredient you can measure by the cup and trust: it does not pack down like flour or clump like cocoa. Weigh a cup of sugar to test your measuring cup and it should read about 198 g.

Whose cup? US against metric

The tidy answer assumes a US cup. A metric cup, the 250 ml one Australia and New Zealand use, holds 225 g of sugar, so by that cup 200 g is only 0.89. A recipe that says "one cup of sugar" means 198 g in America and 225 g in Sydney, 27 g apart on a single cup. For 200 g that is the difference between a full US cup and a scant metric one. The sugar master page carries the metric and Japanese cups in full.

Bigger sugar weights in cups

Reading up from 200 g, in US cups:

The same 200 grams fills less as the ingredient gets denser: 0.82 of a cup of milk, and just 0.59 of honey.

Questions about 200 grams of sugar

Is 200 grams of sugar one cup?

Almost exactly. 200 g of granulated sugar is 1 US cup, since a cup weighs 198 g. It is two grams shy of a level cup, close enough to call it one.

How many cups is 200 grams of sugar?

One US cup, near enough, a cup being 198 g. In a metric 250 ml cup of 225 g, 200 g is 0.89, so check which cup a recipe means.

Why is 200 grams of sugar exactly a cup?

Coincidence of density. A US cup of granulated sugar is 198 g, close to 200, and sugar does not compress, so the cup holds steady. Flour or cocoa, lighter and packable, never line up this way.

Sources

King Arthur Baking for the 198 gram US cup, and Edmonds and Chelsea for the 225 gram metric cup. Full citations on the sources page.