How Much Does a Pint of Blueberries Weigh?

Does a pint of blueberries weigh a pound? Is a pound of blueberries the same volume as a pint? I've asked all these questions myself no less than a dozen times so I bought a pint of blueberries and weighed them. How much does a pint of blueberries weigh in ounces?

Weight of a pint of blueberries is 12 ounces.

That's 3/4 of a pound (less than a pound).

Just so you know, I gathered lots of packages of blueberries at the grocery store and weighed them one by one. Yes, I really did this as produce shoppers all around me looked on. I wanted to be sure about my findings. I found that all pints of blueberries weighed between 11 and 12 ounces. Most weighing closer to 12 ounces.

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Why stop here? Let's keep going!

More about weights, measures and counts of blueberries.

There are 2 1/8 cups blueberries in a pint

This is what my grocery store pint measured. Two cups...plus a little bit. We all know there are 2 cups in a pint, but when I measured out the blueberries by the cup there were a little more than two cups. We are talking about whole blueberries here. The blueberry is a round fruit and when you measure it out there will be spaces in between all those blueberries. This is taken into account in recipes, so using a cup measure with whole blueberries is indeed how to measure them. Now purried, that would be different.

This is the big question: How to compare prices when blueberries are sold by the pint and by the pound. You can do it two ways.

Multipling the price of the pint by 1.33 will give you price per pound.

Example: If blueberries are 3.00 per pint, multiply $3.00 x 1.33 = $3.99 per pound

Or

Multipling the price of the pound by .75 will give you the price per pint.

Example: If blueberries are $5.00 per pound, multiply $5.00 x .75 = $3.75 per pint

Blueberry farms ususally sell by the pound. Grocery stores usually sell by the pint.