Sugar in teaspoons calculator
This calculator turns grams of sugar into level teaspoons of granulated sugar. Type the grams, or pick an item from one of 42 restaurant chains and the page fills in the chain's official sugar figure. One teaspoon is 4.2 g, the weight in USDA FoodData Central.
Convert grams of sugar to teaspoons
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Grams of sugar to teaspoons: table
Level teaspoons of granulated sugar at 4.2 g each, rounded to one decimal.
| Sugar (g) | Teaspoons |
|---|---|
| 1 g | 0.2 |
| 2 g | 0.5 |
| 3 g | 0.7 |
| 4 g | 1 |
| 5 g | 1.2 |
| 10 g | 2.4 |
| 15 g | 3.6 |
| 20 g | 4.8 |
| 25 g | 6 |
| 30 g | 7.1 |
| 40 g | 9.5 |
| 50 g | 11.9 |
| 75 g | 17.9 |
| 100 g | 23.8 |
How the teaspoons are counted
- One level teaspoon of granulated sugar weighs 4.2 g in USDA FoodData Central, entry 169655 "Sugars, granulated". Teaspoons are grams divided by 4.2, rounded to one decimal.
- Dividing by 4 instead gives a slightly higher count: 42 g is 10 teaspoons at 4.2 g and 10.5 teaspoons at 4 g.
- The item figure is the sugar number each chain publishes, labelled "Sugar" and "Sugars" in their tables. Only the Subway data file also lists added sugar. This page uses the published sugar figure for every chain and does not split it into added sugar and other sugar.
- The item list holds 5,486 items with an exact sugar figure from 42 chain files in 11 countries. An item with no sugar figure, or with sugar printed as a range or as "less than" an amount, is not in the list. Some chain files hold part of a menu; each chain's calculator page says which part.
- A teaspoon count compares weight only. It does not say which kind of sugar is in an item.
Source
Teaspoon weight: USDA FoodData Central 169655 (SR Legacy, published April 2019), read . Item figures: each chain's official nutrition data, read to . The source link and read date of each chain are on its calculator page. All chain calculators. How the data is read and checked.
Independent tool. Not affiliated with any restaurant chain. This is arithmetic on published numbers, not diet advice.