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The Chemical Composition of Fruits and Vegetables. The primary chemical constitution in mist freshly harvested fruits and vegetables are water, which ranges s from low of 65% (fresh weight) in persimmons to a high of 96% in cucumbers. Fruit and vegetables tend to be low in protein and lipids and high in carbohydrates. They are also rich sources of certain micronutrients such as specific vitamins and minerals.

The only major fruits and vegetables with a relatively high lipid content are avocado and the olive, both which contain up to 15% lipid, oilseeds such as cottonseed, palm, peanut, and soybean are not usually considered fruits and vegetables. These lipids primarily occur as components of cell membranes which function to maintain the integrity of cells and theirs organelles, as well as to serve as the staging area for many critical metabolic reactions. The fatty acid components of membrane lipids tend to be relatively unsaturated.

Chemical composition of fruit and vegetable

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Vitamins are organic compounds that are essential for normal growth and function of the body. They are made up of various elements, including carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and sometimes other elements like phosphorus. Each vitamin has a specific chemical structure that determines its function in the body.

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it depends on what kind of fruit you will consider...

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Fruits contain hundreds of chemical substances, not a simple formula.

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Vitamins are made up of lipids.

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See the link below.

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carbon, oxygen, hydrogen.

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