Recommended daily allowance of ascorbic acid for an adult male is 90 mg and 75 mg for female in an average mango contains 2 x 10 to the 20th power molecules of vitamin C one a sorbic acid how many mangoes do you need to eat if you are female?

1 Answer
Jan 30, 2018

Well how many moles of ascorbic acid are recommended?

Explanation:

We know that #1*mol# of ascorbic acid contains #6.022xx10^23*"molecules"# of the stuff, i.e. a mass of #176.12*g*mol^-1# for #C_6H_8O_6#...

And thus a mango contains....

#(2xx10^20*"molecules")/(6.022xx10^23*"molecules"*mol^-1)xx176.12*g*mol^-1#

#=0.0584*gxx10^3*g*mg^-1=58.5*mg#...

And this is almost a dose...so you need to eat two mangoes...which might be a problem in winter-time....