•Fuel value is amt of energy per gram of food.
•One nutritional Calorie (C) = 1 kcal = 1000 cal; 1 cal = 4.184 J; 1
kcal=1 Cal =4.184 kJ
•8.7: A 1.00 g sample of a candy bar (which contains a lot of
sugar was burned in a bomb calorimeter. A 3.0oC temp increase was observed for 1.00 x 103 g of water. The entire candy bar weighed 2.5 ounces.
Calc the fuel value (in nutritional Calories)
of the sample and the total caloric content of the candy
bar.
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