Editing Tablespoon (section)

====United States====
The traditional U.S. interpretation of the tablespoon as a unit of volume is:<ref>
{{cite report
 |author1=Thompson, A. 
 |author2=Taylor, B.N. 
 |date=March 2008
 |orig-date=April 1995
 |title=The NIST Guide for the use of International System of Units
 |place=Gaithersburg, MD
 |publisher=U.S. [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]]
 |series=[[NIST]] Special Publication
 |volume=811
 |id=NIST SP811
 |url=https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/sp811.pdf
}}
</ref>

::{|
|-
|1&nbsp;US&nbsp;customary tablespoon ||= 4&nbsp;[[Dram (unit)#Unit of volume|US&nbsp;fluid&nbsp;drams]]
|-
|||= 2 [[Dessert spoon#Culinary measure|US customary dessert spoons]]
|-
|||= 3&nbsp;[[Teaspoon#United States customary unit|US customary teaspoons]]
|-
|||= 6&nbsp;US customary coffee spoons
|-
|||= 12&nbsp;[[Salt spoon|US customary salt spoons]]
|-
|||= 24&nbsp;[[Cooking weights and measures#United States measures|US customary dashes]] (solids only)
|-
|||= 48&nbsp;[[Pinch (unit)|US customary pinches]] (solids only)
|-
|||= 96&nbsp;[[Cooking weights and measures#United States measures|US customary smidgens]] (solids only)
|-
|||= 288&nbsp;[[Drop (unit)|US customary drops]] (liquids only)
|-
|||= {{sfrac|1|2}}&nbsp;US&nbsp;fluid&nbsp;ounce
|-
|||≈ 4.16 British imperial fluid drachms
|-
|||≈ 0.52 British imperial fluid ounce
|-
|||≈ 1.04 UK tablespoons
|-
|||≈ 2.08 [[Dessert spoon#Culinary measures|UK dessert spoons]]
|-
|||≈ 4.16 [[Teaspoon#British culinary measurement unit|UK teaspoons]]
|-
|||≈ 8.33 [[Salt spoon|UK salt spoons]]
|-
|||≈ 16.65 [[Pinch (unit)|UK pinches]] (solids only)
|-
|||≈ 249.8 [[Drop (unit)|UK drops]] (liquids only)
|-
|||≈ 14.8 mL<ref name="usold">{{cite web |author=Mechtly, E.A. |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730018242.pdf |title=The International System of units |date=January 1973 |id=NASA-SP=7012, 1964, 1973}}<br/>The reference indicates the exact conversion to cubic metres, which has been converted to 14.78676478125&nbsp;ml here for convenience.</ref>
|-
|||≈ 0.99 international metric tablespoon
|-
|||≈ 0.74 Australian metric tablespoon
|-
|||≈ 1.48 [[Dessert spoon#Culinary measure|metric dessert spoons]]
|-
|||≈ 2.96 [[Teaspoon#Metric teaspoon|metric teaspoons]]
|}

In nutrition labeling in the U.S., a tablespoon is defined as 15&nbsp;mL<ref name="us">{{cite report |title=21 [[Code of Federal Regulations|CFR (Code of Federal Regulations)]] |section-url=http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2004/aprqtr/21cfr101.9.htm |section=101.9(b)(5)(viii) |publisher=U.S. [[Government Printing Office]] }}</ref> (about 4.22 British imperial fluid drachms (0.53 British imperial fluid ounce) or 4.06 US customary fluid drams (0.51 US customary fluid ounce)).