How many grams in a cup of shredded coconut?
1 cup of shredded coconut weighs 93 g.1 tablespoon: 5.8 g1 teaspoon: 1.9 g
Weights are for shredded coconut (sweetened), in US customary cups.
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Cups to grams
| Cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 12 g |
| ¼ cup | 23 g |
| ⅓ cup | 31 g |
| ½ cup | 47 g |
| ⅔ cup | 62 g |
| ¾ cup | 70 g |
| 1 cup | 93 g |
| 1 ½ cups | 140 g |
| 2 cups | 186 g |
| 3 cups | 279 g |
Grams to cups
| Grams | US measure |
|---|---|
| 25 g | ≈ ¼ cup |
| 50 g | ≈ ½ cup + 1 tbsp |
| 100 g | ≈ 1 cup + 1 tbsp |
| 150 g | 1 ⅝ cups |
| 200 g | ≈ 2 ⅛ cups |
| 250 g | 2 ½ cups + 3 tbsp |
| 500 g | 5 ⅜ cups |
| 1,000 g | 10 ¾ cups |
Rounded to amounts you can measure; ≈ marks a rounded answer.
Measuring shredded coconut
These weights are for shredded coconut (sweetened). A different form, or a cup filled another way, weighs differently, so weigh it if the recipe gives grams.
The King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart gives 85 g per cup. We use the USDA figure throughout.
Source
USDA FoodData Central, food 168586: “Nuts, coconut meat, dried (desiccated), sweetened, shredded”, 1 cup, shredded = 93 g (USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy, April 2018). Other amounts are calculated with 1 cup = 16 tablespoons = 48 teaspoons. Data version 2026-10-17.1, reviewed 16 October 2026.
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