Convert cups (us legal) to milliliters 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 milliliter is a small metric volume unit. One mL is 0.001 L and occupies the same volume as 1 cm³.
History/origin: Metric kitchens and laboratories adopted mL because it gives fine control for liquids without using fractions of a larger liter measure.
Current use: ML is used on measuring jugs, medicine cups, beverage labels, sauce bottles, cocktail specs, baking liquids, and recipes that call for exact liquid volumes.
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