Question

determine the energy generated by eating one serving of Jelly Bellies, NOT from the package calorie list, but by calculating based on the grams of sucrose per serving of jelly bellies.

Answer 1

One serving size of jelly bellies contains 25 g of carbohydrates, all of which are sugars.

One Jelly Belly jelly bean contains 4 calories, making a standard serving size of 25 pieces add up to 100 calories.

All Jelly Belly jelly beans vary in terms of the specific ingredients that give them their flavor, but all also share the same fundamental ingredients that make them a jelly bean: sugar i.e., mainly composed of sucrose, corn starch and glucose syrup.

Jelly beans contains 70% of sugar of which maximum is sucrose. It also contains other sugars such as fructose.