How much does a cup of sesame seeds weigh?
145g
A cup of sesame seeds (240 ml) weighs 145 g. A tablespoon weighs 9 g, a teaspoon 3 g. For comparison: the same cup of water weighs 240 g.
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27g
3 tbsp sesame seeds in grams
- tsp
- 9
- ml
- 45
1 cup = 240 ml (US cup), 1 tbsp = 15 ml, 1 tsp = 5 ml. Rounded the way you'd measure in a kitchen. Where the values come from
Also known as
- white sesame seeds
- black sesame seeds
- toasted sesame seeds
- sesame
- til seeds
- safed til
- ellu
- nuvvulu
- roasted sesame seeds
- iri goma
- irigoma
- kkae
- goma
- konjed
Show all 53 names
- kunjed
- wijen
- wijen putih
- widjen
- kunzhut
- kunjut
- kunzhyt
- kunji
- shiro goma
- kuro goma
- white sesame
- black sesame
- zhīma
- zhi ma
- bai zhima
- báizhīma
- hei zhima
- hēizhīma
- zi maa
- white til
- teel
- tilli
- gingelly seeds
- simsim
- ufuta
- nehimba
- selit
- ajonjolí
- sésamo
- semilla de ajonjolí
- sesamsaat
- sesamkörner
- heller sesam
- schwarzer sesam
- gerösteter sesam
- sesamsamen
- gerösteter weißer sesam
- sesam geröstet
- weißer sesam
Not to be confused with
- sesame oil
- sesame paste
- sesamöl
- sesampaste
If a recipe says “sesame oil” or “sesame paste”, the converter won't count it as sesame seeds.
Source
- USDA FoodData CentralSR 170150: 1 cup 144 g, 1 tbsp 9 g
- King Arthur Baking1/2 cup 71 g
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