Flours percentage yield

Figure 2. Percentage yield of flour fractions obtained from navy, pinto, and black beans, (Reproduced with permission from reference 33.)...

Let us carry this analogy one step further. Suppose we go on to cook our pancakes. We accidentally bum three of them and one falls on the floor. So even though we had enough flour for 15 pancakes, we finished with only 11 pancakes. If this were a chemical reaction, the 11 pancakes would be our actual yield, the amount of product actually produced by a chemical reaction. Finally, our percent yield, the percentage of the theoretical )deld that was actually attained, is ... 

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