Editing Gram (section)

== Uses ==
[[File:Amphetamine.jpg|thumb|One gram of [[amphetamine]]s (the unit often used for street retail)]]
The gram is the most widely used unit of measurement for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and grocery shopping worldwide.<ref>{{cite book |author=Pat Chapman |title=India Food and Cooking: The Ultimate Book on Indian Cuisine |date=2007 |publisher=New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd |location=London |isbn=978-1845376192 |page=64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=orHWFRMKf4EC&pg=PA64 |access-date=2014-11-20 |quote=Most of the world uses the metric system to weigh and measure. This book puts metric first, followed by imperial because the US uses it (with slight modifications which need not concern us). }}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Gisslen, Wayne |title=Professional Cooking, College Version |publisher=Wiley |location=New York |year=2010 |page=107 |isbn=978-0-470-19752-3 |access-date=2011-04-20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5el9CYbEP0C&pg=PA107 |quote=The system of measurement used in the United States is complicated. Even when people have used the system all their lives, they still sometimes have trouble remembering things like how many fluid ounces are in a quart or how many feet are in a mile. ... The United States is the only major country that uses almost exclusively the complex system of measurement we have just described.}}</ref> Liquid ingredients are often measured by [[volume]] rather than mass.

Many standards and legal requirements for [[nutrition label]]s on food products require relative contents to be stated per 100&nbsp;g of the product, such that the resulting figure can also be read as a percentage.

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