Anonymous wrote:Dirtman wrote:traciet wrote:I want to know how many teaspoons equal a gram of sugar?
1 teaspoon US = 4.9289 ml (milliliters). 1 ml of granulated sugar weighs 0.849 grams, so 4.9289 ml * 0.849 grams = 4.1846 grams in 1 teaspoon US
In every country other than the US, a teaspoon = 5 ml. So a teaspoon would contain 4.245 g of granulated sugar.
In all countries, a metric teaspoon = 5 ml. However, there are at least 2 other countries besides the US that have different teaspoon measures.
A teaspoon UK = 5.9194 ml
A teaspoon Canadian = 4.736 ml
I don't know the histories of different teaspoon measures, but my guess is these (US, UK and Canada) are traditional measures used before the metric system was put into place.
George