Convert cups (us legal) to milligrams for cooking measurements.
Definition: A US legal cup is defined as exactly 240 milliliters.
History/origin: The legal cup exists mainly for US food labeling and regulatory consistency rather than traditional home cooking.
Current use: US legal cups appear on nutrition labels and in some official food packaging contexts.
Definition: The milligram is a metric mass unit for extremely small quantities. There are 1,000 mg in one gram, so each milligram equals 0.001 g.
History/origin: Because metric units scale by powers of ten, the milligram became the natural kitchen and nutrition unit for amounts too small to handle in grams.
Current use: Mg appears most often on nutrition labels, supplement facts, preservative amounts, caffeine listings, salt or sodium values, and food-science formulas.
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