Measuring Fruits for Recipes: How Many Pounds of Fruit are in a Cup?
Weight to Cups Conversions for All Types of Fruits
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When baking a peach pie or an apple cobbler, it can be challenging to determine how many pounds of fruit you need to purchase and prepare for the recipe. Our handy conversion chart makes it easy to answer questions, like “How many peaches are in a cup?” and “How many strawberries are in a pound?”
The following table lists the amounts of fruits in relation to measuring cup equivalencies.
Pounds of Fruit to Cup Equivalencies| Apples | 1 pound (3 or 4 medium) = 3 cups sliced |
| Bananas | 1 pound (3 or 4 medium) = 1–3/4 cups mashed |
| Berries | 1 quart = 3–1/2 cups
1 pound= 3 cups |
| Dates | 1 pound = 2–1/2 cups pitted |
| Lemon | 1 whole = 1 to 3 tablespoons juice; 1 to 1–1/2 teaspoons grated rind |
| Lime | 1 whole = 1–1/2 to 2 tablespoons juice |
| Orange | 1 medium = 6 to 8 tablespoons juice; 2 to 3 tablespoons grated rind |
| Peaches | 1 pound (4 medium) = 3 cups sliced |
| Pears | 1 pound (4 medium) = 2 cups sliced |
| Rhubarb | 1 pound = 2 cups cooked |
| Strawberries | 1 quart = 4 cups sliced
1 pound = 2 3/4 cups sliced |
Are you looking for some delicious ways to use your fresh fruit? Check out our favorite rhubarb recipes, 10 spectacular strawberry recipes, and the fan-favorite—fresh peach cobbler.
What fruit recipes are you cooking up this season? Let us know in the comments below!
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Catherine Boeckmann loves nature, stargazing, and gardening so it’s not surprising that she and The Old Farmer’s Almanac found each other. She leads digital content for the Almanac website, and is also a certified master gardener in the state of Indiana.
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