MEASURING SPOONS
Fact Sheet
The Eatright Liverpool team encourages you to use measuring spoons when
you prepare your meals. Measuring spoons will help you to reduce the amount of
salt and fat you add to meals and ensure consistency of the nutritional quality of
your meals. If you use measuring spoons you can be sure that every time you cook
your meals, you will add a similar amount of fat and salt, thus your meals will be
consistent.
Using spoons will also help maintain the correct balance of your ingredients and
help to ensure that your meals taste good. It is well known that adding too much
salt can make a meal taste salty or too much vinegar can make a meal too bitter.
If you do not use measuring spoons try to ensure that you can measure your
ingredients accurately and consistently. This will help to ensure that fat and salt are
not added inadvertently.
MEASURING THE AMOUNT OF SALT USING SPOONS
The following tables show the approximate weights of different ingredients using
different sized measuring spoons and the equivalent amount of salt they contain.
SALT:
Spoon Size Salt
1/8 teaspoon 1g
1/4 teaspoon 2.2g
1/2 teaspoon 3.1g
1 teaspoon 6.5g
1 tablespoon 20g
SOY SAUCE:
Spoon Size Soy Sauce Equivalent Salt
1/8 teaspoon 0.8ml 0.15g
1/4 teaspoon 2ml 0.3g
1/2 teaspoon 3ml 0.5g
1 teaspoon 6ml 1g
1 tablespoon 18ml 2.5-3g
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MONOSODIUM GLUTOMATE:
Spoon Size
1/8 teaspoon Monosodium Glutamate 0.7g Equivalent Salt
0.2g
1/4 teaspoon 1.5g 0.5g
1/2 teaspoon 2.3g 0.8g
1 teaspoon 5.0g 1.7g
1 tablespoon 14g 4.7g
OYSTER SAUCE:
Spoon Size 1 teaspoon Oyster Sauce 6.5g Equivalent Salt
0.7g
1 tablespoon 16g 1.8g
CHICKEN STOCK:
Spoon Size 1/8 teaspoon Chicken Stock 0.5g Equivalent Salt
0.2g
1/4 teasponn 1.3g 0.6g
1/2 teaspoon 1.9g 0.9g
1 teaspoon 4.3g 1.9g
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE:
Spoon Size
1/8 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce 0.8g Equivalent Salt
0.03g
1/4 teaspoon 2.1g 0.08g
1/2 teaspoon 3.0g 0.1g
1 teaspoon 6.0g 0.2g
1 tablespoon 16g 0.6g
BLACK BEANS:
Spoon Size Black Beans Un-Rinsed Soaked And Rinsed
SaltSalt
1.3g 1 tablespoon 10g 0.6g
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MEASURING THE AMOUNT OF OIL USING SPOONS
The following tables show the approximate weights of oils when using different
sized measuringspoons.
VEGETABLE OIL:
Spoon Size
1/2 teaspoon Vegetable Oil
2.5ml
1 teaspoon 5.0ml
1 tablespoon 12.5ml
SEASAME OIL:
Spoon Size 1/8 teaspoon Sesame Oil
0.6ml
1/4 teaspoon 1.4ml
1/2 teaspoon 2.5ml
1 teaspoon 5.0ml
1 tablespoon 12.5ml