Lesson 79 How Sweet it Is

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Which do you think has more mass, 1 mole of fructose or 1 mole of aspartame? Explain your reasoning.

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What is the mass of 1 mole of each sweetener? Show your work. (Round values to the nearest gram.)

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Which has more molecules, 40 g of fructose or 40 g of aspartame? Explain your reasoning.

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A can of regular soft drink contains 40.0 g of fructose. How many moles of fructose are in a can of regular soft drink? Show your work.

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A can of diet soft drink contains 0.225 g of fructose. How many moles of aspartame are in a can of diet soft drink? Show your work.

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Which has more molecules of sweetener, a can of regular soft drink or a can of diet soft drink?​

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regular soft drink

diet soft drink

they have the same

impossible to tell

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Which is sweeter, fructose or aspartame? Explain your thinking.

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Saccharin is a common artificial sweetener. Lab rats were given 40.0 g saccharin every day for a year. How much saccharin did each rat consume over the course of a year?

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An average person consumes one can of soft drink each day, and a can of soft drink has 0.20 g of saccharin. How much saccharin would you consume in a year if you drank one diet soft drink a day?

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How much saccharin (in grams) would a person who weighs 70 kg have to consume in order to be exposed to a dose equivalent to what the 1 kg rats were fed in a year? (Use you answers from the previous two slides).

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How many grams of fructose (sugar) would you consume in a year if you drank one regular soft drink a day? How many moles of fructose is this? If 1 kg is 2.2 lb, how many pounds of fructose is this?