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How many cups is 500 grams of cream cheese?
Answer
≈ 2 ⅛ cups
500 grams of cream cheese fills about 2 ⅛ cups (2.16 US cups, or about 34.5 tablespoons). The math uses USDA's figure of roughly 232 g per cup.
Cream cheese: grams to cups
| Weight | US cups | In the kitchen |
|---|---|---|
| 50 g | 0.216 | about ¼ cup |
| 100 g | 0.431 | about ⅜ cup |
| 125 g | 0.539 | about ½ cup |
| 200 g | 0.862 | about ⅞ cup |
| 250 g | 1.08 | about 1 ⅛ cups |
| 500 g | 2.16 | about 2 ⅛ cups |
| 1000 g | 4.31 | about 4 ⅓ cups |
Source: USDA FoodData Central #173418, Cheese, cream. USDA lists 1 cup = 232 g. Weights are approximate.
Measuring tip
Liquids are the easiest thing to measure by volume, so cups and a scale will agree closely. Dairy weighs a little more or less than water depending on its fat, sugar and air content. When a recipe gives grams, a scale is always the most accurate choice.
See also: 1 cup of cream cheese in grams.