So now that I am eating healthier and really trying to make smoothies and other recipes with fruits and vegetables, I just have one question, “how much is one cup?” I get it, I have a pyrex measuring cup which is easy if you want to measure a cup of milk or juice. But how do you measure a cup of strawberries or spinach?
Well the fine people at the CDC put together a simple chart of exactly how much of a fruit or vegetable equals one cup (they also have measurements for a 1/2 cup). The website is called “Fruits and Veggies Matter” and is actually a pretty information-rich website.
Here are some examples of 1 cup:
- 1 baked potato
- 2 large plums
- 2 large stalks of celery
- 32 grapes
- 8 large strawberries
Finally now I know that 8 strawberries equals a cup!
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