Cups to grams / Medium-grain rice (uncooked)
How many grams is 1 tablespoon of medium-grain rice (uncooked)?
1 tablespoon of medium-grain rice (uncooked) (medium-grain white rice) weighs
12g
That's 0.4oz. An Australian 20ml tablespoon holds 16g.
A level US or UK tablespoon (15ml). USDA doesn't measure a tablespoon of this, so this is a sixteenth of its cup weight.
USDA measures generic medium-grain white rice. Arborio and other risotto rices are in this family but USDA doesn't measure them separately.
Other amounts of medium-grain rice (uncooked)
Where these numbers come from
USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, food 20450: “Rice, white, medium-grain, raw, unenriched”. USDA lists these household measures for it:
- 1 cup = 195g
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.