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Question

A person consumes 30 g of fructose and 10 g of galactose in a beverage. Assuming complete hepatic conversion of these sugars to glucose, and no immediate utilization elsewhere, how many grams of glucose will the liver acquire from these sugars?

Accepted Answer

40 g of glucose will be produced in the liver from the combined 30 g fructose and 10 g galactose.

Answer

40 kcal of glucose equivalent rather than grams, because the scenario requires conversion to energy units instead of mass, which changes the measured quantity and is not what was asked.

Answer

30 g of glucose since galactose is excreted intact and only fructose is converted to glucose in the liver, which contradicts the stated complete conversion of both sugars.

Answer

20 g of glucose because the liver converts only half of dietary hexoses to glucose while oxidizing the remainder immediately for ATP production, an assumption not given in the problem statement.