Tablespoons of sliced strawberries to grams runs on one number, 10.375 grams per tablespoon. It is a measured property of this ingredient rather than a defined conversion, which is why a generic volume-to-weight tool cannot give you it.
Water is the yardstick: 1 mL of it weighs 1 g. Sliced strawberries comes in at 0.70164 g per mL, or 70.16% of water, which is why a cup of it is 166 g rather than 236.6 g. Volume and weight only line up for water, and only in metric.
A level tablespoon of sliced strawberries is 10.38 g, which puts a teaspoon at 3.458 g and a tablespoon and a half — the quantity recipes are fondest of — at 15.56 g. Levelling twice is where the error comes from, so the scale is the faster instrument once the quantity passes a couple of spoons.
Grams are the unit this conversion is really for. A domestic scale resolves to a gram, which is 0.602% of a cup of sliced strawberries, so weighing gets an accuracy no measuring cup can reach. A 500 g pack of it is 3.012 cups, and a 1 kg pack 6.024.
How the figure is arrived at: Sliced. Whole berries leave much larger gaps and weigh less per cup.
The formula
tablespoons- The amount of sliced strawberries you are converting, in tablespoons
10.375- Grams per tablespoon for sliced strawberries, from its density of 0.70164 g/mL
grams- The equivalent quantity in grams
How it works, step by step
- Enter the quantity in tablespoons.
- It is multiplied by 10.375, the grams-per-tablespoon figure for sliced strawberries.
- The result appears in grams, with a second reading in oz beneath it.
- Use the measure table if you want a standard recipe quantity rather than a number you type in.
Worked examples
2 tbsp of sliced strawberries in grams
Take 2 tbsp of sliced strawberries: 2 × 10.375 gives 20.75 grams. Doubling the batch takes it to 41.5 grams, because the relationship is a straight proportion once the density is known.
4 tbsp of sliced strawberries in grams
4 tbsp of sliced strawberries weighs out at 41.5 grams. Divide 41.5 by 10.375 and you get back to 4 tbsp, which is the quickest check that the factor is the right way up.
12 tbsp of sliced strawberries in grams
Take 12 tbsp of sliced strawberries: 12 × 10.375 gives 124.5 grams. Doubling the batch takes it to 249 grams, because the relationship is a straight proportion once the density is known.
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Frequently asked questions
How many grams are in 1 tbsp of sliced strawberries?
One tablespoon of sliced strawberries is 10.375 grams. Half that quantity is 5.1875 grams and double it is 20.75 grams, so the figure scales straight up and down — there is no offset in this conversion, only the factor.
Why is a cup of sliced strawberries not 236 g like water?
Because weight per cup depends on what is in the cup. Sliced strawberries has a density of 0.70164 g per mL where water has 1.00, so a cup of it weighs 166 g rather than 236.6 g. That is a difference of 70.6 g per cup, and it is the reason a single volume-to-weight factor cannot be applied to every ingredient.
Does how I measure it change the weight?
Yes, and by more than most people expect. Handling changes the weight of a cup of sliced strawberries by roughly 12% — about 9.96 g either side of 166 g — because sliced. Weighing removes the question entirely.
Is a fluid ounce of sliced strawberries the same as an ounce?
No. A fluid ounce is a volume — one eighth of a US cup, 29.57 mL — and an ounce is a weight. One fluid ounce of sliced strawberries weighs 0.7319 oz, so the two readings differ by 26.8%. They coincide only for something with the density of water, and then only roughly.
Is this a US cup or a metric cup?
US customary: 236.59 mL, which is the cup every US recipe means. A metric cup is 250 mL, so the same cup of sliced strawberries would weigh 175.41 g instead of 166 g — 9.41 g more, or 5.67%. Australian and some European recipes use the metric cup, and the difference is large enough to matter in baking.
Do I need a scale for this, or will measuring cups do?
A scale, if the result matters. Volume measuring carries a spread of about 12% for sliced strawberries — roughly 19.9 g on a 166 g cup — while a domestic scale is accurate to a gram or two. For anything where the ratio of ingredients drives the outcome, bread and pastry above all, weigh it.
How many tablespoons of sliced strawberries is 500 g?
500 g of sliced strawberries is 48.193 tablespoons — 0.0963855 tablespoons to one gram, so 500 × 0.0963855 = 48.193. Going that way is a division by 10.375, or a multiplication by 0.0963855 if you prefer.
Sliced strawberries in tablespoons and grams
| Tablespoons | Grams | Unrounded |
|---|---|---|
| 1/2 tbsp | 5.1875 g | 5.1875 |
| 1 tbsp | 10.375 g | 10.375 |
| 2 tbsp | 20.75 g | 20.75 |
| 3 tbsp | 31.125 g | 31.125 |
| 4 tbsp | 41.5 g | 41.5 |
| 6 tbsp | 62.25 g | 62.25 |
| 8 tbsp | 83 g | 83 |
| 12 tbsp | 124.5 g | 124.5 |
| 16 tbsp | 166 g | 166 |
Based on 166 g per cup of sliced strawberries. One tablespoon of sliced strawberries is 10.375 grams.
| Measure | Grams | Ounces | Millilitres |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 166 g | 5.86 oz | 236.6 mL |
| 1 tbsp | 10.38 g | 0.366 oz | 14.79 mL |
| 2 tsp | 6.917 g | 0.244 oz | 9.858 mL |
| 1 tsp | 3.458 g | 0.122 oz | 4.929 mL |
| 3/4 tsp | 2.594 g | 0.0915 oz | 3.697 mL |
| 1/2 tsp | 1.729 g | 0.061 oz | 2.464 mL |
| 1/4 tsp | 0.8646 g | 0.0305 oz | 1.232 mL |
| 1/8 tsp | 0.4323 g | 0.0152 oz | 0.6161 mL |
US customary measures: 1 cup = 236.59 mL, 1 tbsp = 14.79 mL, 1 tsp = 4.93 mL.
| Ingredient | Grams per cup | Ounces per cup | Density (g/mL) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blueberries | 148 g | 5.221 oz | 0.6256 |
| Crumbled feta | 150 g | 5.291 oz | 0.634 |
| Corn kernels | 150 g | 5.291 oz | 0.634 |
| Whole flaxseed | 165 g | 5.82 oz | 0.6974 |
| Sliced strawberries (this page) | 166 g | 5.855 oz | 0.7016 |
| Chocolate chips | 170 g | 5.997 oz | 0.7185 |
| Chia seeds | 192 g | 6.773 oz | 0.8115 |
Ordered by weight. The spread across this group is why a single generic cups-to-grams factor cannot work.