The "Matter" on Labels Objectives:

In this activity, you should be able to:

1. name elements that are listed in the Nutrition Facts of a food label

2. recognize that the elements listed in the Nutrition Facts are not added as the elements themselves.

3. infer that the food ingredient could be the source of those listed elements; and 4. recognize the most of these food ingredients are examples of compounds

Materials:

food labels

Procedure

1. Refer to the labels of different food products below.

These questions are based on the attached photo. the experiment is about burning magnesium metal with oxygen. 1. write the balanced chemical equation for the reaction you are performing. 2. calculate the mass of magnesium metal used in each trial. o trial 1: o trial 2: 3. calculate the actual yield of magnesium oxide for each trial. o trial 1: o trial 2: 4. magnesium is the limiting reactant in this experiment. calculate the theoretical yield of mgo for each trial. o trial 1: o trial 2: 5. determine the percent yield of mgo for your experiment for each trial. o trial 1: o trial 2: 6. determine the average percent yield of mgo for the two trials. your company currently uses a process with a similar cost of materials that has an average percent yield of 91 percent. if the average percent yield of this process is higher than that, this could save the company money. what is your recommendation to the company? support your recommendation using your data, calculations, and understanding of stoichiometry gathered from this lab.