Peach converter: whole peaches, cups, grams
A recipe says '2 cups sliced peach' and you have a tray that ripened at different rates. One medium peach is about 150 g and makes one cup when sliced, while smaller early-season peaches may be only 130 g and late-season fruit up to 175 g. Use the converter to set the size that you have for what you need in cups, grams or ounces.
A small peach is 130 g and a large one 175 g, so 'four peaches' in a cobbler can vary by 180 g, or a whole extra peach. That difference matters most in jam, where the pectin and sugar are calculated against fruit weight rather than the number of peaches that you have.
How much does a peach weigh?
Weight runs from about 130 g (4.59 oz) for a small peach up to 175 g (6.17 oz) for a large one, with a medium, or average, one at 150 g (5.29 oz).
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Peach converter tool
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Common Peach conversions
Quick reference for peach at medium size. Switch the size in the converter above for small or large.
| peaches | Cups (chopped) |
|---|---|
| 1 peach | 0.97 cups |
| 2 peaches | 1.95 cups |
| 3 peaches | 2.92 cups |
| 4 peaches | 3.9 cups |
| 5 peaches | 4.87 cups |
| 6 peaches | 5.84 cups |
Peach conversion chart
The chart below shows how whole peaches (medium size) convert to cups, grams and ounces.
| peaches | cups | cups (US) | g | oz | lb | kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 peach | 0.97 cups | 1.01 cups (US) | 150 g | 5.29 oz | 0.33 lb | 0.15 kg |
| 2 peaches | 1.95 cups | 2.03 cups (US) | 300 g | 10.58 oz | 0.66 lb | 0.3 kg |
| 3 peaches | 2.92 cups | 3.04 cups (US) | 450 g | 15.87 oz | 0.99 lb | 0.45 kg |
| 4 peaches | 3.9 cups | 4.05 cups (US) | 600 g | 21.16 oz | 1.32 lb | 0.6 kg |
| 5 peaches | 4.87 cups | 5.07 cups (US) | 750 g | 26.46 oz | 1.65 lb | 0.75 kg |
Peach varieties and best uses
The conversions above are the same whatever variety you use; the difference is what each is good for. Here is how the common peach varieties compare.
| Variety | Best for |
|---|---|
| Yellow | Cobblers, jam and the grill: acidic enough that sugar does not flatten it. |
| White | Eat over the sink. It has low acid, so it tastes sweeter but can be messy. |
| Freestone | Halve and twist: the stone drops out, so a tray is prepped in minutes. |
| Clingstone | Tins and early-season fruit: cut wedges off the pit, firm enough to hold shape. |
| Donut (Saturn) | Snacking and fruit platters: flat and small with sweet white flesh and a tiny pit. |
Which should I pick?
Buy on the stone, not the colour. A freestone peach gives up its halves with a twist, which is what you want when you are slicing a tray for a cobbler; a clingstone has to be cut off the pit in wedges, and it is what most early-season fruit and nearly all tinned peaches are. Yellow flesh stays tangy enough to balance sugar in baking and jam. White flesh is sweeter and lower in acid, so it is better raw, and the flat donut peach is the one that goes in a lunchbox whole.
In my kitchen
Peaches are usually a freshly eaten snack or something diced and added to a fresh platter when guests are over. We get whatever is in season, so sometimes they cling to the seed, sometimes they don't and sometimes they are white. As a kid, tinned peaches with some ice cream were an easy favourite treat. If we end up with a tray and they don't get eaten, a peach cake or crumble is where they can end up.
Notes from Ian, Cooking Converter
Good to know about peach
- T. S. Eliot's “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” turns on the line “Do I dare to eat a peach?”. The usual reading is that Prufrock is afraid biting into juicy fruit in company would make him look silly.
- In Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, spilled magic crystals make one peach on an old barren tree swell to the size of a house and turn the insects inside it giant. A flock of seagulls roped to its stem lifts the whole thing into the air and pulls it across the Atlantic.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the size of a medium peach?
- A medium peach weighs about 150 g, which works out to roughly 0.97 cups (1.01 US cups) of chopped flesh. Peaches come in a range of sizes depending on the season, variety and where they were grown, so weight and cup figures shift accordingly. Use the size selector above to match what you actually have, then read the exact conversion for any amount.
- How much does an average peach weigh?
- An average peach is the same as a medium one: about 150 g. A small peach is lighter at around 130 g and a large one heavier at about 175 g, so the size you actually have changes the total for any recipe that counts peaches by the piece rather than by weight.
- How much does a large peach weigh?
- A large peach weighs about 175 g, noticeably more than a medium, or average, one at 150 g or a small one at 130 g. Set the size selector to large to convert cups, grams and ounces for the bigger peaches you actually have on the counter.
- How many peaches are in a cup?
- It takes about 1 medium peach to fill a cup, since a cup of prepared peach holds 154 g and a medium peach weighs 150 g. Swap in small peaches and that rises to roughly 1.2; large ones bring it down to about 0.9. Enter any cup amount above and the converter reads back the count for the size you picked.
- How many peaches are in a pound?
- A pound of peaches is about 3 medium peaches, since a pound is 454 g and a medium peach is 150 g of that. Small peaches push the count up to roughly 3.5, and large ones bring it down to about 2.6. Weigh what you have and the converter above turns it into whole peaches.
- How many pounds of peaches are in a cup?
- A cup of prepared peach comes to about 0.34 pounds, or 154 g. Size does not move that figure, since a cup measures prepared flesh: a large peach and a small one fill it to the same weight. Counting whole peaches is a different question, and the converter above answers that one by size.
- How much juice is in a peach?
- A peach yields approximately 50% of its weight in juice. That means a medium peach (150 g) yields about 75 ml, a small one (130 g) about 65 ml and a large one (175 g) about 88 ml. See the juice yield calculator if you are adding peach to your juice blend. Open the juice yield calculator
- How do I convert grams to ounces for any ingredient?
- Converting grams to ounces is pure weight maths that applies to any food, not just peaches, so 200 grams is always 7.05 ounces. For other amounts, the weight converter at the link below handles grams, ounces, pounds, kilograms and stone in both directions. Grams to ounces converter
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