can someone please figure out approximately how many grams of lycopene are in a

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can someone please figure out approximately how many grams of lycopene are in a serving ? based on the numbers given

Tare weight of round bottom flask 34.77g

weight of round bottom flask and lycopene 34.79g

weight of lycopene isolated .02g

percent of lycopene recovered.40%

5) Refer to the nutritional data on a botle of ketchup. How many grams are in a serving? How many grams of sugar are in a serving? How many milligrams of salt are in a serving? Based ors the data from today's experiment (and assuming that the ketchup is mainly tomato paste), approximately how many grams of lycopene are in a serving? Lycopene has health bencfits an an antioxidant. Do you think ketchup is a good way to add lycopene to your diet? Esplain. to add lycopene to your diet? Explain. Serving size (g Amt, sugar (g) brand: 2 Amount of lycopene (approximate g) (show work) Amt. salt (mg) 150m

Explanation / Answer

As the extraction of lycopene was carried out from the tomato ketchup sample(17g) so the amount of lycopene (extracted) will be 0.40% of the crude product =0.40/100*0.02g=0.00008 g=0.08 mg

[percent recovery=mass of pure compound in impure sample/total mass of impure sample*100]

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