Gram to Cup

40 grams of maple syrup to cups

40 g of maple syrup is about 0.12 cups, which is roughly 1/8 cup or 1.99 tablespoons. That comes from 322 g per US cup. Pure maple syrup at room temperature.

Measure40 g of maple syrup
Cups0.12
Kitchen measure1/8 cup
Tablespoons1.99
Grams per cup used322 g

Pure maple syrup weighs about 322 g a cup, second only to honey on this site. It pours cleanly and does not cling the way honey does, so a liquid measuring cup works fine, though a scale is still tidier.

Result
0.83 cups
About 7/8 cup of all-purpose flour. 100 g is 3.53 oz by weight.
Assumes spoon-and-level. Scooped flour runs closer to 140 g a cup.

Questions

How many cups is 40 g of maple syrup?
0.12 cups, or about 1/8 cup. That is worked out at 322 g per US cup.
How many tablespoons is 40 g of maple syrup?
About 1.99 tablespoons, since one US cup is 16 tablespoons. For small amounts tablespoons are usually the more accurate measure to work with.
Why does 40 g give a different number of cups for other ingredients?
Because cups measure volume and grams measure weight. 40 g of maple syrup is 0.12 cups at 322 g per cup, while the same 40 g of a denser or lighter ingredient fills a different amount of space.

Other amounts of maple syrup

24 g25 g28 g30 g32 g33 g35 g39 g45 g50 g

See all maple syrup conversions or 40 g of every other ingredient.