How do I calculate the percentage of an ingredient for a recipe?

I have this product that's supposed to stabilize a cheesecake and to use said product, I have to add anywhere from 0.75-1.0% of this stabilizer. But the problem I'm having is figuring out how I should go about calculating this percentage.



For example, the recipe calls for 24oz of cream cheese, 1.5 cups of sugar, a tablespoon of vanilla extract, etc. All these amounts are different measurements. What should I do?



Thanks in advance.How do I calculate the percentage of an ingredient for a recipe?
Have you made this cheesecake before? If so do you use a certain pan? Do you remember roughly how full it fills the pan? If so fill the pan up to that level with water. Pour into a measuring cup. You will have the volume in cups or milliliters or ounces, whatever you prefer to deal with. Then you can easily figure out 1%How do I calculate the percentage of an ingredient for a recipe?
24oz of cream cheese is 100% multiply .75 times 1.5 (16oz +8oz ) and you get 1.125 or 1 1/8 oz