how many grams in a cup of figs?

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• How many grams in a cup of chopped dried figs?
  About 149 g for chopped dried figs measured spoon-and-level. Whole dried figs don't measure cleanly by cup at all — the cavities and stems make any volume reading meaningless. For fig bars, granola, or pilafs, chop first to roughly raisin size, then spoon into the cup. Recipes specifying '1 cup figs' nearly always mean chopped.
• Should I pack chopped figs into the cup?
  No — packing pushes the sticky pieces together and you'll end up with closer to 180-190 g, which throws fig-Newton fillings and fruitcake batters off. Spoon them in loosely, give the cup a gentle tap to settle obvious gaps, and level with a knife. The 149 g figure assumes that loose-spooned approach.
• Do Mission and Calimyrna figs weigh the same per cup?
  Close, but not identical. Mission figs are darker, smaller, and slightly moister, so a cup runs 150-155 g. Calimyrna figs are larger, paler, and often drier on the shelf, landing closer to 140-145 g per cup chopped. For most recipes that 5-10 g spread doesn't matter, but for fig jam where sugar ratios drive set, weigh.

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