Convert Sour cream: cups to grams
1 cup of Sour cream = 230 grams
Amount of Sour cream
Density: 0.972 g/ml · Sour cream
Sour cream: cups to grams at a glance
The amounts people ask for most, worked out for Sour cream.
How much Sour cream weighs
Every figure below is one measured number — 230 g per US cup — scaled. That is why this table and the converter above it cannot disagree.
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How much does a cup of sour cream weigh?
230 g, per USDA FoodData Central — the lightest of the dairy liquids here, below heavy cream (238 g), whole milk (244 g) and buttermilk (245 g). King Arthur's chart gives all four 227 g, the flat eight-fluid-ounce figure it applies to every liquid, so it is the USDA numbers that keep them apart at all.
Source for Sour cream: USDA FoodData Central · USDA FoodData Central
Frequently asked questions
How many grams is 1 cup of Sour cream?
1 cup of Sour cream is 230 grams, because one US cup of Sour cream weighs 230 g. That single measured figure is the whole conversion — every other unit on this page is derived from it.
How many cups is 100 grams of Sour cream?
100 grams of Sour cream is 0.435 cups. It is the same conversion read backwards, so this page and its reverse always agree.
Why doesn't a cup of Sour cream weigh the same as a cup of anything else?
Because a cup is a fixed volume — 236.588 ml — and what it weighs depends entirely on what you put in it. A cup of Sour cream is 230 g. The same cup holds 120 g of all-purpose flour, 236.6 g of water, 336 g of honey. Converting without naming the ingredient is guessing, and across this site's ingredients the spread from the lightest cup to the heaviest is fourfold.
Where does dishscale's figure for Sour cream come from?
One US cup of Sour cream is 230 g. The dataset records that as: “USDA FoodData Central”. That is the USDA FoodData Central. Every ingredient on the site carries the reference its weight came from, so any number here can be checked — and corrected if the source disagrees.