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Active dry yeast: cups to grams

One US cup of active dry yeast weighs about 150 grams. Convert any amount below.

Weights are approximate — see the note on scooping below.

Active dry yeast conversion table

Whose cup?

A cup is not one size. The United States measures 240 ml, the UK, Canada and New Zealand use a 250 ml metric cup, and Japan's カップ is 200 ml — so the same recipe line can mean a fifth more or less flour depending on where it was written. Australia shares the 250 ml cup but uses a 20 ml tablespoon, the only one of its size.

This page is currently showing US cup. Switch standards in the converter above and every number on the page follows.

Why weighing beats scooping

These figures describe active dry yeast measured the usual way, but a cup is a container, not a quantity. Flour packed tightly into the cup can outweigh the same cup loosely spooned by a fifth — which is the single most common reason a baked recipe comes out differently than it did last time. If you own a scale, the gram column is the one to trust.

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Active dry yeast in other languages

Useful when you are cooking from a recipe written somewhere else — these are the names the same ingredient goes by in the languages Gather supports.

• English active dry yeast
• German Trockenhefe
• Spanish levadura seca activa
• French levure sèche active
• French (Quebec) levure sèche active
• Italian lievito secco attivo
• Japanese ドライイースト
• Portuguese (Brazil) fermento biológico seco
• Portuguese (Portugal) fermento de padeiro seco

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Out of active dry yeast?

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