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 Fact Sheets & Eatright Liverpool Guidance MONOSODIUM GLUTOMATE: Spoon Size Monosodium Glutamate Equivalent Salt 1/8 teaspoon 0.7g 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 Oyster Sauce Equivalent Salt 1 teaspoon 6.5g 0.7g 1 tablespoon 16g 1.8g CHICKEN STOCK: Spoon Size Chicken Stock Equivalent Salt 1/8 teaspoon 0.5g 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 Worcestershire Sauce Equivalent Salt 1/8 teaspoon 0.8g 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 Salt Salt 1 tablespoon 10g 1.3g 0.6g MEASURING SPOONS Fact Sheet 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 Vegetable Oil 1/2 teaspoon 2.5ml 1 teaspoon 5.0ml 1 tablespoon 12.5ml SEASAME OIL: Spoon Size Sesame Oil 1/8 teaspoon 0.6ml 1/4 teaspoon 1.4ml 1/2 teaspoon 2.5ml 1 teaspoon 5.0ml 1 tablespoon 12.5ml.