I am including a teablespoon of wheat bran in my daily intake as an attempt to stay regular, as suggested by DANDR. How should I count this in Fitday?

Fitday only gives 1 cup measure of wheat bran, unprocessed. So since tehre are 16 tbs in 1 cup, i tbs = 1/16 or .0625 cup.

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Thanks! I'm still getting used to cups, I had to go and root for some, we don't have them in the UK but I find them quite useful as all the recipies I find online are in cups.

I hope that a cup is a cup is a cup.

a cup should be 8 fluid ounces.

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Again, I have issues with fluid ounces, but thanks for the tip! I tend to use litres and militres.

Yes, I realize you're on the more advanced metric system. Just think of a cup as a 1/4 of litre. It's not exact but it's close enough.

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Ha ha I wouldn't call it more advanced.

That is a useful conversion though thanks, maybe we should post these conversions up somwhere on the forum for UK users?

240 ml = 1 cup
30cc or ml = 1 oz

Alc...perhaps a food scale for dry measures would help you out?

hth
Shelley

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This is my favorite conversion tool:

http://www.onlineconversion.com/

They have conversions for anything you can think of.

HTH

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A cup is the amount of fluid in a normal sized tea or coffee cup. As you said, a cup is a cup is a cup.

Well actually, what I meant is I don't think a cup is a cup is a cup!

You are right, and maybe some of the professional cooks on board can explain further, but technically, a cup of liquid does not measure our the same as a cup of something dry. I think they even make wet measuring cups and dry measuring cups.

The teacup idea doens't fly because there is no guarantee that a teacup holds 8 oz. Depending on the recipe, the difference might not matter. But it might make a big difference!

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The problem is that a cup is both a measure of volume or a liquid measure. And a metric cup is not the same as a US cup or a Canadian cup (although they're all pretty close.)

1 cup [US] = 236.5882375 cubic centimeters (volume) or 236.5882375 milliliters (liquid metric) or 8 US ounces (liquid US)

1 cup [metric] = 250 cubic centimeters (volume) or 250 milliliters (liquid metric) or 8.4535056 ounces (liquid US)

1 cup [Canada] = 227.3045 cubic centimeters (volume) or 227.3045 milliliters (volume) or 7.6860795 ounces (US, liquid) - which is 8 ounces (UK liquid)

Clear as mud now?

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A cup is 250 ml not 240 the math converters are a little off of what we use as the actual baking measure (may be correct for scientists tho) - we Canadians are stuck between the British and US measuring conventions, most of our tools measure in both metric and imperial, my one cup measure reads 250 ml.

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