All-purpose flour weighs about 120 to 125 grams per US cup when spooned into the cup and leveled, so 500 grams is right around 4 cups. The conversion is ingredient specific, sugar and butter have different densities, and a free cups to grams converter handles each ingredient in your browser.
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Open Cooking / Recipe Converter →A cup measures volume, but flour compresses. Scooping the cup straight into the bag packs the flour down and can load noticeably more than the 120 to 125 gram reference weight, which is enough to dry out a bread or stiffen a cake. Spoon the flour in loosely and level the top, or better, use the gram figure directly with a kitchen scale.
Each ingredient has its own cup weight: granulated sugar is about 200 grams per cup and butter about 227 grams per cup, which is exactly why one universal cups-to-grams number cannot exist. An ingredient-aware converter applies the right density for flour, sugar, butter, cocoa, rice and the rest, and converts in both directions.
About 2 cups of all-purpose flour, using the 120 to 125 grams per cup reference.
Because how you fill the cup changes the weight. The spoon-and-level method is the usual reference, packed cups weigh more.
No. Granulated sugar is denser, about 200 grams per cup, so always convert per ingredient.