Home› Cooking› Grams of Whole Wheat Flour to Tablespoons
Cooking conversion
Grams of Whole Wheat Flour to Tablespoons
How many tablespoons of whole wheat flour are in a given weight? Type a number of grams below to see the volume. Math uses whole wheat flour's density of 0.478 g/mL.
Calculator
100 g of whole wheat flour = 14.1481 tbsp
Grams of Whole Wheat Flour to Tablespoons Conversion Table
Common values for whole wheat flour:
| Grams of whole wheat flour | Tablespoons |
|---|---|
| 10 g | 1.4148 tbsp |
| 25 g | 3.537 tbsp |
| 50 g | 7.074 tbsp |
| 100 g | 14.1481 tbsp |
| 150 g | 21.2221 tbsp |
| 200 g | 28.2962 tbsp |
| 250 g | 35.3702 tbsp |
| 500 g | 70.7405 tbsp |
| 1000 g | 141.48 tbsp |
How this works
Whole wheat flour has a density of about 0.478 g/mL (king arthur baking: 1 cup = 113g). That means 1 mL of whole wheat flour weighs 0.478 grams.
Tablespoons = grams × 0.1415
Note: Spooned and leveled.
Why a cup of whole wheat flour doesn't always weigh the same
Volume measurements are forgiving in some ways and brutal in others. A cup of whole wheat flour can vary by 10-20% in weight depending on how it's measured: spooned vs scooped, packed vs loose, sifted vs unsifted. The density figure used here (0.478 g/mL) matches the most common published recipe conventions, but if you're after baking precision, weighing on a kitchen scale is more accurate than measuring by volume.
Sourced from King Arthur Baking: 1 cup = 113g. Spooned and leveled.
Volume vs weight in cooking
The American convention of measuring ingredients by volume (cups, tablespoons, teaspoons) is convenient but introduces variability that doesn't exist in weight-based recipes. Most professional bakers and bakeries weigh ingredients to within a gram because the structure of baked goods depends on precise ingredient ratios. For everyday cooking — soups, sauces, sautés — the volume-to-weight imprecision rarely matters. For baking that depends on rising or texture (cakes, breads, laminated doughs), it matters a lot.
The conversion
Multiplying the volume of whole wheat flour by its density (0.478 g/mL) gives the weight in grams. The calculator at the top of this page does the math automatically; the formula box above shows the resulting linear factor for the specific volume and weight units selected here.