500 grams is just over a pound. Things that weigh about that are not few and far between; how many items you interact with daily that meet that would surprise you. We’ve compiled a list so you don’t have to wonder anymore.
Common Things That Weigh 500 Grams
Since there are so many things that weigh about 500 grams, we’ve broken it down into a few categories: animals, food, and the miscellaneous category, which contains all of the things that weigh 500 grams but don’t fit into the other two categories.
Food
This begins the food category. It may seem like an oddly specific way to measure your food, but many people prefer to measure by weight instead of by pieces or cups. Knowing how much your food weighs is a trick often used by people who are on some meal plan, especially when it comes to proteins.
A Loaf of Bread
White or wheat, it doesn’t matter. One standard loaf of sandwich bread, which is approximately 20 slices (including the butts), weighs about 500 grams. However, if you’re someone that likes to have specialty loaves of bread with all of the crunchy bits all up in it, your bread will weigh more. The same goes for fancier breads like sourdough.
Three Navel Oranges
Once in a while, you find yourself having to buy oranges by the pound. If you want one pound of oranges, which is just 500 grams, you can grab for three navel oranges, which weigh about 150 grams apiece. To get to that perfect 500 grams, grab a mandarin orange, which weighs in at around 50 grams. This many oranges would make the ideal option for snacks if you had three big kids and one toddler, or you like oranges on your own.
Chocolate Bars
Two and a half Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars equals 500 grams perfectly, since each bar weighs 200 grams when unwrapped. Two and a half chocolate bars would be an excellent option for adding to a double batch of chocolate chip cookies; chop the bars up into small chunks and fold in for a good time. Or, you know, you could eat them and not tell anybody.
Oreos
Something to note here is that these calculations are just for standard stuffed Oreos. Double and mega stuffed Oreos weigh more because they have more cream in the middle. One standard stuffed Oreo is 11 grams. Therefore, you will need 45 Oreos to make 500 grams. Until recently, Oreo had offered their packs in three rows of 15, totaling 45. However, they have recently reduced the amount of Oreos in a package to 39. So, if you’re trying to get to 45 Oreos, you’ll need to buy two packs.
Ice Cream
Not just any ice cream, however. We’re talking a pint of ice cream. One pint of ice cream weighs about 450 grams, so if you add whipped cream and a cherry on top, you’ll be at 500 grams in no time. Of course, the actual weight of your ice cream will depend on what you have selected; an ice cream filled with cookie or candy pieces will weigh more than a pint of standard vanilla.
Animals
When you have a low weight limit like 500 grams, the animals that will fit within this weight requirement are going to be teeny-tiny. There’s something so cute about animals you can fit in your hands, though. These are the animals we found that weigh 500 grams; sometimes, it might take more than one to get there. When it comes to cute baby animals, though, the more the merrier.
Kittens
Only the tiniest of tiny baby kittens fit in this category. A baby kitten that is one to two weeks old weighs about a hundred grams so that you can have five of them for 500 grams. Most litters of kittens come in fours, but sometimes, you will have a litter of five. If you find yourself the owner of a litter of five baby kittens, they should weigh about 500 grams; if they don’t, you might want to take them to the vet to make sure everything is okay.
Bullfrogs
The American bullfrog, when fully grown and matured, can weigh up to 500 grams. When they’re little, though, they usually weigh about ten grams apiece. That’s fifty teeny tiny bullfrog babies you could have. In the wild, a bullfrog lives from 8 to ten years, while they can live up to sixteen years in captivity. Around a year is when they’ll reach 500 grams.
Bearded Dragons
A Central bearded dragon, when fully grown, will also weigh about 500 grams. Central bearded dragons are the ones that are kept as pets. They’re more “appealing” to keep as pets because of all of the colorful morphs available. Eastern bearded dragons are not as colorful, the insides of their mouths are yellow instead of pink, and they’re less docile. Eastern and Central bearded dragons alike reach 500 grams at around two years.
Snails
Who doesn’t love a good snail? Land snails, also known as edible snails, or escargot, weigh about 45 grams when they’re fully grown. Since they are used as a food source, especially in France, they are sometimes cultivated and given diets which make them larger and tastier. If you had a land snail that weighed 45 grams, you would need about 11 of them to make 500 grams. The typical serving for escargot is five snails, so you’d have enough for two servings with one extra mollusk left over.
Weight, What?
This is our miscellaneous category, where things come to be obscure. Here is where you’ll find things that you see almost daily, but you would never in a million years think to weigh or need 500 grams of. However, once you know, you’ll be glad you do.
Spoons
A standard metal spoon weighs 25 grams. So, you would need 20 spoons to get to 500 grams. In a typical set of flatware, you get about four spoons, so twenty spoons would give you enough for five sets of flatware. Why do you need to know this? Who knows? Maybe you like to measure your place settings before guests come over to make sure everyone is equal.
Socks
A pair of crew socks, also known as ankle socks, weighs about 35 grams. That means you could have about 14 pairs of socks to weigh around 500 grams. That might be useful information if you’re a retailer who needs to know the weight for shipping purposes. Or, maybe you want to know if your socks are as lightweight as they claim to be.
Shampoo
The most common size for shampoo and conditioner bottles is 8 ounces. If you have an 8-ounce bottle of shampoo and a same-sized bottle of conditioner, you would reach about 453 grams. If you happened to have a 3.5-ounce bottle of shampoo, which is the largest approved size for airports, you would have just about 500 grams. The weight of your bottles, assuming you’re in the US, is in US fluid ounces. If you plan to take a trip somewhere where they use the imperial system, knowing the weight of your bottles in grams might make the conversion easier so you can follow the airport’s regulations.
Why Do You Need to Know This?
You don’t need to know the weight of most things in your life. However, weight is a great way to judge the health of an animal as well as to measure your food to ensure that you aren’t over-eating. If you ever want to get into the world of online retail, you need to know the weight of items so that you can ship them and charge correctly. If you weigh in grams, that makes it easier to ship things internationally, as there won’t be any chance for the weight to get messed up in conversion.
