Cups to grams / Medium-grain rice (uncooked)
How many cups is 250g of medium-grain rice (uncooked)?
250g of medium-grain rice (uncooked) (medium-grain white rice) is
1¼ cups + 1 tbsp
That's 1.28 US cups, 1.21 metric cups, or 21 level tablespoons.
Worked out from 1 US cup = 195g. Cups are rounded to the nearest kitchen fraction, with what's left over in level tablespoons. If you have scales, weighing is more accurate.
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)
- 100g: ½ cup
- 200g: 1 cup
- 1 cup: 195g
- Half a cup: 98g
- A quarter cup: 49g
- 1 tablespoon: 12g
- Full table for 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.