How many grams is half a cup of golden syrup?
Half a cup of golden syrup weighs
159g
That's 5.6oz. In a 250ml metric cup it's 168g.
This uses the US cup, the size American recipes mean. Half a cup is 118ml by volume.
Golden syrup is thick and sticky, so a cupful clings to the cup. Weighing it straight into the bowl is more accurate than measuring by volume.
Other amounts of golden syrup
Where these numbers come from
Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Specific gravities (nutrition panel calculator), checked 2026-10-25. USDA doesn't measure this ingredient, so we use this source instead. It lists:
- Syrup, golden: specific gravity 1.34. FSANZ describes its table as indicative, a guide rather than an exact measurement.
Cup and spoon weights are that density (in g/ml) multiplied by the volume: a US cup holds 236.6ml and a US tablespoon 14.8ml. The teaspoon is a third of the tablespoon. Metric-cup figures assume a 250ml cup, and Australian tablespoons hold 20ml. Weights under 10g are rounded to 0.1g, everything else to the nearest gram. Full source list.