how many grams in a cup of chia seeds?

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• When would a recipe call for a full cup of chia seeds?
  Batch chia pudding for the week, homemade chia jam scaled up for canning, or grinding the seeds into chia flour for gluten-free baking. A cup also turns up in granola and energy-bar recipes that yield a tray. For a single bowl of pudding you'd use 2-3 tablespoons, so cups are a meal-prep or production scale.
• Do chia seeds settle in the bag like flour?
  Slightly, but far less than flour. The seeds are hard, rounded, and slip past each other rather than packing, so a scooped cup runs maybe 5 g over a spooned one — not the 20-25 g spread you see with flour. Spoon and level if you want to hit 148 g, but the recipe will survive either way.
• How much liquid does a cup of chia seeds absorb?
  Chia absorbs roughly 10-12 times its weight in water, so 148 g of seeds will lock up around 1.5 liters of liquid into a gel. That's why a cup is rarely the right home scale — you'd end up with the better part of two liters of pudding. Most recipes cap at 1/4 cup of seeds per 1-2 cups of liquid.

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