Ingredients

Yogurt conversion

Choose a plain unsweetened yogurt density or a separate source recipe convention that groups yogurt styles.

Editorially reviewed October 28, 2026
Measurement reference

Yogurt

Plain unsweetened yogurt

Use the published g/mL entry for this state. No household cup measurement is implied.

Reference values describe the stated ingredient and measuring method. Your own ingredient may differ.

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A source cup keeps the publisher’s meaning. It is not silently treated as a US or metric cup.

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Use a measurement from your own kitchen

Weigh a known volume of this ingredient in the same state. This reference stays in your local project and does not change the public data.

References for this ingredient
Ingredient stateSource measureReported weightVolume definitionSource
Yogurt, styles grouped by source1 source cup227 gNot defined in this sourceKing Arthur · 1 source cup = 227 g
Plain unsweetened yogurt1.031 g/mL1.031 gNot defined in this sourceFAO/INFOODS · 1.031 g/mL · DK

Yogurt can appear under broad recipe wording, but the available references have narrower scopes. Keep the product style visible when selecting the relationship used by the converter.

Match the yogurt style

King Arthur groups traditional and Greek styles in a recipe-measure convention. This is not independent evidence that all those products have the same physical density.

The FAO/INFOODS density record is for plain, unsweetened yogurt. It does not separately validate strained, whipped, drinkable, Greek, or sweetened products, and the selected record leaves temperature unspecified.

Use a known amount first

If the recipe gives yogurt by weight, scale the weight. If it says a fraction of a tub, identify the tub’s amount before turning that fraction into a mass.

Keep package size and product style in the row note. The note helps prevent unlike tubs or unlike yogurt products from becoming a misleading shopping total.

Keep hydration accounting explicit

Yogurt remains a separate row in a basic baker’s formula. Its entire mass is not added as water merely because it is moist.

The selected density relates mass and volume. It does not supply a composition-based water calculation, so do not use it to infer one.

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