how many grams of sugar in a teaspoon

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A standard teaspoon of granulated sugar weighs about 4 grams. More precisely, many reliable references use 4 grams as the typical weight per level teaspoon, with 4.2 grams often cited as the exact value per level teaspoon. Context and practical takeaways:

  • If a nutrition label lists sugar in grams and you want to visualize it in teaspoons, divide the grams by 4 (roughly) to estimate the number of teaspoons.
  • For example, 20 g of sugar equals about 5 teaspoons.
  • Some sources distinguish between level and heaped teaspoons; a heaped teaspoon will weigh more (roughly 7–7.5 g for sugar, depending on how heaped it is).

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