Strawberries (fresh, sliced)

One US cup of strawberries (fresh, sliced) weighs 166 grams. Going the other way, 100 grams is about 0.60 cups.

Also called strawberries, fresh strawberries, sliced strawberries, strawberry slices, fresh sliced strawberries.

Sliced fresh strawberries are one of the closest source-agreement entries on the site. USDA's SR Legacy record (FDC ID 09316) publishes 166 grams per cup sliced, while King Arthur's Ingredient Weight Chart publishes 167 grams for the same state. The 0.6% gap is well inside the 10% milled tolerance and even inside the tighter 5% tolerance used for sugars. This entry publishes the USDA figure of 166 g/cup (density 0.7016 g/mL) as primary and cites KA at 167 g/cup as the confirming second source.

The more interesting physical story lives in the same USDA record. One cup of whole strawberries is 144 g (density 0.6087 g/mL), while one cup sliced from the same berries is 166 g (density 0.7016 g/mL). That is a 15% density increase from the same fruit just by slicing. Whole strawberries are large irregular cone-shaped fruits, roughly 3 to 4 centimeters at the base and tapering to a point, and they leave big air gaps in a cup regardless of how you arrange them. Slicing them into 5 to 8 millimeter discs creates flat pieces that stack against each other and fill the gaps that whole berries would leave. The berry mass per unit of cup volume rises accordingly. King Arthur only publishes the sliced state, which is the state most recipes actually call for. USDA's parallel whole, sliced, halves, and pureed portions expose that a 'cup of strawberries' can mean four different masses depending on the cut, which is useful context bakers rarely get from a conversion chart.

Compared to the site's other fresh fruit entries, sliced strawberries at 166 g/cup sit almost exactly on top of fresh pineapple diced at 165 g/cup. Both are fibrous water-containing chunks whose density is controlled by geometry rather than the fruit's own density. Apple slices are much lighter at 109 g/cup because apple slices are thin and curved, leaving more interstitial air than strawberry discs do. Fresh blueberries range from 140 to 170 g/cup because whole small round fruit packs even more variably than cut chunks. The takeaway is that once fresh fruit gets cut into thick pieces, the packing density lands in a fairly narrow band around 150-170 g/cup regardless of the underlying fruit.

Cultivar and variety affect sliced strawberries less than they affect whole ones because slicing normalizes the packing behavior. California strawberries are typically larger and firmer than Florida strawberries, but once both are sliced into similar discs, the loose-fill density converges. The stronger sensitivity is to slice thickness. Very thin slices pack denser because more surface contact means fewer gaps. Thick slices pack looser and behave more like whole berries. USDA's 166 g figure implies a standard 5 to 8 millimeter slice, which matches typical recipe practice with a paring knife.

Category is milled, following the fresh chunked fruit precedent already established by apple-slices and pineapple-diced. Fresh water-containing solid pieces whose density is sensitive to fill method belong here rather than in sugar (which is reserved for small crystalline or particulate solids like sugars, salts, chocolate chips, and small dried fruits). Sliced strawberries are much larger than the raisin-sized dried fruits in sugar and their behavior is dominated by geometry and water content rather than crystal packing.

Confidence is medium. Two authoritative sources (USDA and King Arthur) agree to within a gram on the same sliced state, and USDA provides the underlying nutritional record with multiple parallel cup portions that explain the physical mechanism transparently. The whole-versus-sliced 15% gap documented in the same USDA record is worth reading before assuming a recipe's 'cup of strawberries' means the sliced state you have on your board.