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Cups to grams / Polenta (dry cornmeal)

How many grams is a quarter cup of polenta (dry cornmeal)?

A quarter cup of polenta (dry cornmeal) (yellow cornmeal) weighs

39g

That's 1.4oz. In a 250ml metric cup it's 41g.

This uses the US cup, the size American recipes mean. A quarter cup is 59ml by volume.

Other amounts of polenta (dry cornmeal)

Where these numbers come from

USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, food 20022: “Cornmeal, degermed, enriched, yellow”. USDA lists these household measures for it:

  • 1 cup = 157g

Fractions of a cup are the cup weight scaled down. The tablespoon figure is the cup weight divided by 16, since USDA doesn't list a tablespoon for this ingredient. 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.