How many grams in a teaspoon

A teaspoon of table salt weighs 6 grams: pick the ingredient, type the teaspoons, get grams.

Amount From To

Fractions work: 1 1/2 or ¾.

Ingredient

Cups and spoons

1 tsp table salt

6 g

US cup of 236.6 mL

How this is measured

1 US cup of table salt weighs 288 g. Based on King Arthur's ingredient weight chart.

How to convert teaspoons to grams

A US teaspoon is exactly 1/48 of a US cup (NIST Handbook 44: 3 teaspoons to the tablespoon, 16 tablespoons to the cup), so a level teaspoon weighs a forty-eighth of a cup of the same ingredient. King Arthur Baking gives a tablespoon of table salt as 18 grams, so a cup holds 288 grams, a teaspoon of salt is 6 grams and 2 teaspoons are 12 grams. Multiply the teaspoons by the grams in one teaspoon of the ingredient and you have the weight.

Teaspoons to grams chart

Level US teaspoons of the ingredients recipes give by the teaspoon most often:

US teaspoons (1/48 cup), level. Flour spooned and leveled; sugar granulated; salt table salt.

US teaspoons to grams, by ingredient
Teaspoons	Table salt	Granulated sugar	All-purpose flour	Butter	Honey	Cocoa powder
⅛ tsp	0.75 g	0.516 g	0.313 g	0.591 g	0.883 g	0.219 g
¼ tsp	1.5 g	1.03 g	0.625 g	1.18 g	1.77 g	0.438 g
½ tsp	3 g	2.06 g	1.25 g	2.36 g	3.53 g	0.875 g
¾ tsp	4.5 g	3.09 g	1.88 g	3.55 g	5.3 g	1.31 g
1 tsp	6 g	4.13 g	2.5 g	4.73 g	7.06 g	1.75 g
1½ tsp	9 g	6.19 g	3.75 g	7.09 g	10.59 g	2.63 g
2 tsp	12 g	8.25 g	5 g	9.46 g	14.13 g	3.5 g
3 tsp	18 g	12.38 g	7.5 g	14.19 g	21.19 g	5.25 g
4 tsp	24 g	16.5 g	10 g	18.92 g	28.25 g	7 g
6 tsp	36 g	24.75 g	15 g	28.38 g	42.38 g	10.5 g

Grams in a teaspoon of sugar, honey and butter

A teaspoon of granulated sugar weighs 4.13 grams (America's Test Kitchen's cup of 198 grams ÷ 48), so 8 teaspoons of sugar weigh 33 grams. Honey is far denser: 1 teaspoon of honey weighs 7.06 grams by USDA data. A teaspoon of butter is 4.73 grams, of cocoa powder 1.75 grams.

Grams in a teaspoon of baking soda, baking powder and yeast

King Arthur Baking lists ½ teaspoon of baking soda as 3 grams, so a level teaspoon of baking soda weighs 6 grams. On the same chart a teaspoon of baking powder is 4 grams, and a tablespoon of instant yeast is 9 grams: a teaspoon of instant yeast comes to 3 grams and 2 teaspoons to 6 grams.

Level US teaspoons (1/48 cup). King Arthur Baking gives ½ teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 1 tablespoon of instant yeast by weight; the rest follows from the US spoon.

Teaspoons of baking soda, baking powder and instant yeast in grams
Spoons	Baking soda	Baking powder	Instant yeast
¼ tsp	1.5 g	1 g	0.75 g
½ tsp	3 g	2 g	1.5 g
¾ tsp	4.5 g	3 g	2.25 g
1 tsp	6 g	4 g	3 g
1½ tsp	9 g	6 g	4.5 g
2 tsp	12 g	8 g	6 g
1 tbsp	18 g	12 g	9 g
2 tbsp	36 g	24 g	18 g

USDA data gives other spoon weights for these powders, and its yeast figure is for active dry yeast rather than instant. The converter keeps King Arthur's weight as the answer and shows the USDA figures under "How this is measured". Leaveners work in small amounts, so a scale that reads tenths of a gram is worth using when a recipe gives grams.

Is a teaspoon 5 grams?

Only for water, and only roughly. A US teaspoon holds 4.93 mL, and water at 20 °C weighs 4.92 grams in it (NIST Chemistry WebBook density). The 5 mL teaspoon of US nutrition labels (21 CFR 101.9) and of metric measuring spoons holds 4.99 grams of water. Salt is heavier than that, flour and cocoa much lighter, so a gram figure for "a teaspoon" always needs the ingredient.

Level teaspoons

Every weight on this page is for a level spoon, filled and scraped flat. A heaped teaspoon holds more, and none of our sources gives a weight for it. For small amounts that matter, such as salt in bread, weigh on a kitchen scale that reads single grams.

Questions

How many grams are in a teaspoon?

It depends on the ingredient: 6 grams of table salt, 4.13 grams of granulated sugar, 2.5 grams of all-purpose flour and 7.06 grams of honey. The chart above lists more.

How many grams is 1 teaspoon of sugar?

4.13 grams of granulated sugar, level. Packed brown sugar is heavier: 4.44 grams.

How many grams is a teaspoon of baking soda?

6 grams, level, by King Arthur Baking's weight; ½ teaspoon is 3 grams.

How many grams is a teaspoon of baking powder?

4 grams, and a tablespoon of baking powder 12 grams.

How many grams of yeast are in a teaspoon?

3 grams of instant yeast, a third of King Arthur Baking's 9 grams a tablespoon.

How many grams of honey are in a teaspoon?

7.06 grams, and a tablespoon of honey 21.19 grams.

Is 1 tsp 2 grams?

For a few light powders it is close: a level teaspoon of cocoa powder weighs 1.75 grams and of all-purpose flour 2.5 grams.

How do I convert grams to teaspoons?

Divide the grams by the weight of one teaspoon, or use the grams to teaspoons converter.

Sources

21 CFR 101.9 (US nutrition labeling)
America's Test Kitchen baking conversion chart
America's Test Kitchen, Baking Basics: Measuring Ingredients
King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart
King Arthur Baking, How to measure flour
Manufacturer's label serving size, as listed in USDA FoodData Central (Branded Foods)
NIST Chemistry WebBook (Standard Reference Database 69), water
NIST Handbook 44, Appendix C
NIST Special Publication 430, Household Weights and Measures
USDA FoodData Central, FNDDS survey foods
USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy
USDA Nutritive Value of Foods, Home and Garden Bulletin No. 72
Weights and Measures Act 1985 (UK), Schedule 1