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Millilitres to Grams — Cornflour / Cornstarch

Converts millilitre of cornflour / cornstarch to gram using its real density, not a generic volume factor. One millilitre is 0.5072103405 gram.

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In short One millilitre of cornflour / cornstarch is 0.5072103405 gram. Going the other way, one gram is 1.9715686375 millilitre. That works out at 2 millilitre = 1.0144206811 gram and 4 = 2.0288413621. The figure comes from cornflour / cornstarch weighing 120 g per US cup — a generic cups-to-grams converter assumes water and will give you the wrong answer here, because volume to weight depends entirely on what is in the cup.

How to use the Millilitres to Grams — Cornflour / Cornstarch

  1. Type the value you want to convert.
  2. Pick the unit you are converting from and the unit you want.
  3. The converted value and the exact conversion factor are shown instantly.

About the Millilitres to Grams — Cornflour / Cornstarch

Cornflour is a fine powder that settles hard in the box, so it is worth stirring before measuring. Because it is used in small quantities as a thickener, a proportional error here shows up quickly — a sauce thickened with 20% too much cornflour turns gluey rather than glossy. The same ingredient is called cornflour in the UK and cornstarch in the US, which is a common recipe trap. The figure this page works from is 120 g per US cup, the spooned-and-levelled weight recorded by King Arthur Baking and the USDA food database. Converting millilitre to gram for cornflour / cornstarch, the amounts that come up most often are: 25 millilitre = 12.7 gram; 50 millilitre = 25.4 gram; 75 millilitre = 38 gram; 100 millilitre = 50.7 gram; 150 millilitre = 76.1 gram; 200 millilitre = 101 gram; 250 millilitre = 127 gram; 500 millilitre = 254 gram; 1000 millilitre = 507 gram.

What people use it for

  • Following a US recipe with a kitchen scale instead of cup measures.
  • Scaling a recipe up or down without compounding measuring error.
  • Converting a European recipe written in grams into cups.

Details

1 US cup of cornflour / cornstarch120 g
1 Millilitre0.5072103405 Gram
1 Gram1.9715686375 Millilitre
Worth knowingThe same ingredient is called cornflour in the UK and cornstarch in the US, which is a common recipe trap.

The maths behind it

This tool uses gram = millilitre × 0.5072103405, derived from cornflour / cornstarch weighing 120 g per US cup. Every intermediate value is shown on screen, so the result can be checked by hand.

Cornflour is a fine powder that settles hard in the box, so it is worth stirring before measuring. Because it is used in small quantities as a thickener, a proportional error here shows up quickly — a sauce thickened with 20% too much cornflour turns gluey rather than glossy.

Where this tool stops

Volume-to-weight conversion is inherently approximate. Humidity, brand, how finely something is milled and how long it has sat in the cupboard all shift the figure by a few per cent.

Frequently asked questions

Is cornflour the same as corn flour?
Not always, and this catches people out. In the UK, cornflour is the white starch thickener. In the US, "corn flour" can mean finely ground cornmeal, which is a completely different yellow ingredient. If a recipe uses it to thicken a sauce, it means the starch.
Why does a cup of cornflour / cornstarch not weigh the same as a cup of water?
Because a cup measures volume and a scale measures weight, and the two only agree for water. Cornflour / cornstarch has its own density — 120 g per US cup — so any generic volume converter gives the wrong answer here.
How much does the way I fill the cup matter?
Quite a lot. Cornflour is extremely fine and compacts readily, so a scooped cup runs well above the 120 g here. Since it is almost always used as a thickener in small quantities, the proportional error is what bites — a heaped tablespoon instead of a level one is the usual cause of a gluey sauce.
Is a US cup the same as a UK or metric cup?
No. A US cup is 236.6 ml, a metric cup is 250 ml and an old UK cup is 284 ml. These pages use the US cup, because that is what US recipes mean.
Does the Millilitres to Grams — Cornflour / Cornstarch cost anything?
No charge and no sign-up. There is no free tier to run out of because there is no paid tier — inputtesthub.com is funded by advertising rather than by metering the utility.
Does anything I enter leave my computer?
No. The Millilitres to Grams — Cornflour / Cornstarch runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Because the work happens locally, the utility also keeps working if your connection drops, and closing the tab is all it takes to discard everything.
Can I check the maths myself?
It uses gram = millilitre × 0.5072103405, derived from cornflour / cornstarch weighing 120 g per US cup. The full working is printed under the result, so you can follow every step rather than trusting a black box.
Can you show an example?
Enter 2 millilitre of cornflour / cornstarch and the Millilitres to Grams — Cornflour / Cornstarch returns 1.0144206811 gram.
What problem does the Millilitres to Grams — Cornflour / Cornstarch solve?
In practice it gets used for three things: following a US recipe with a kitchen scale instead of cup measures. Scaling a recipe up or down without compounding measuring error. Converting a European recipe written in grams into cups. It is built for exactly those cases rather than being a general-purpose tool with this bolted on.
Is there anything the Millilitres to Grams — Cornflour / Cornstarch cannot do?
Volume-to-weight conversion is inherently approximate. Humidity, brand, how finely something is milled and how long it has sat in the cupboard all shift the figure by a few per cent. Knowing where a tool stops being trustworthy matters more than the cases where it works.
What figures does the Millilitres to Grams — Cornflour / Cornstarch work from?
1 US cup of cornflour / cornstarch is 120 g. 1 Millilitre is 0.5072103405 Gram. 1 Gram is 1.9715686375 Millilitre. These are printed on the page itself, so you do not have to take them on trust.
Can I rely on this for exact work?
The calculation runs in double precision and the result is shown to ten significant figures, so converting a value and converting it back returns the original. What is displayed is rounded for readability; what is copied is not.

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