how many grams in a teaspoon of rye grain?

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• How many grams in a teaspoon of rye berries?
  About 3.5 g for a level teaspoon of whole dry rye berries — roughly 10-12 individual kernels depending on the size of the grain. A heaping teaspoon nudges closer to 5 g. Because the berries are too hard to chew raw, a teaspoon is usually a topping that gets toasted, sprouted, or cracked first rather than eaten dry.
• When would a recipe ever measure rye berries by the teaspoon?
  Garnish-scale uses: a teaspoon of toasted cracked rye scattered over a grain salad, pressed into the crust of a loaf before the final proof, or sprinkled on avocado toast. It's also the kind of measurement you'd see for a sprouting trial — a teaspoon of berries in a small jar produces enough sprouts for one sandwich.
• Can I swap a teaspoon of rye berries for rye flakes?
  Roughly, but the texture changes. A teaspoon of whole berries (3.5 g) is about a teaspoon of rolled rye flakes by volume but only about 2-2.5 g by weight, since the flakes are flat and trap air. For a topping, flakes toast faster and stay crisp; whole berries need pre-cooking or sprouting unless you want them tooth-cracking hard.

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