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Peanut butter: cups to grams

One US cup of peanut butter weighs about 260 grams. Convert any amount below.

Weights are approximate — see the note on scooping below.

Peanut butter 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 peanut butter 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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Peanut butter 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 peanut butter
• German Erdnussbutter
• Spanish mantequilla de cacahuate
• French beurre de cacahuète
• French (Quebec) beurre d'arachide
• Italian burro di arachidi
• Japanese ピーナッツバター
• Portuguese (Brazil) manteiga de amendoim
• Portuguese (Portugal) manteiga de amendoim

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Out of peanut butter?

Weighing it and replacing it are different questions, and we answer both. What to use instead of peanut butter →

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