Cherries (frozen, pitted): why 113 g per cup is wrong
King Arthur Baking Ingredient Weight Chart publishes 113 g (4 oz) per US cup of cherries (frozen, pitted). This site rejects that figure and publishes 155 g (5.5 oz) instead, from USDA SR Legacy "Cherries, sour, red, frozen, unsweetened" (FDC 171718) (density 0.6551 g/mL, matching the composition of the substance). The reason:
A frozen cherry weighs about 1 g/mL, so a cup at 113 g would be less than half cherry and more than half air. Whole, roughly round fruit poured into a cup fills 60 to 65% of it: USDA weighs a cup of unthawed frozen tart cherries at 155 g and a cup of fresh pitted sweet cherries at 154 g, and USDA's Food Buying Guide yields 159 g per cup thawed with the juice. King Arthur's own Sour Cherry Pie recipe uses 225 g per cup of frozen or water-packed cherries, twice its chart figure. 113 g is a round 4 oz that matches no measurement.
The arithmetic
| Source | 1 cup | Density | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| King Arthur Baking Ingredient Weight Chart | 113 g4 oz | 0.4776 g/mL | Rejected on physics |
| USDA SR Legacy "Cherries, sour, red, frozen, unsweetened" (FDC 171718) | 155 g5.5 oz | 0.6551 g/mL | Published here |
The published figure and its sources
The full sourcing for cherries (frozen, pitted), including every accepted and rejected figure, the state or filling method behind each, and the physics or standards reasoning applied, is on the ingredient page.
Cherries (frozen, pitted) — full sources and conversion table
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