if plants use photosynthesis, how much of fruit is made from sunlight?

Question

if plants use photosynthesis, how much of fruit is made from sunlight?

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Answer 1

Sunlight contributes **energy**, not **mass**. It is used to create chemical bonds between parts of the air, the water, and the nutrients that the plant consumes (which would otherwise not form bonds by themselves). The energy is then *stored* in the form of chemical bonds.

If you lift up a book and put in on the shelf no “part” of you is now part of the book, you just helped to raise it to a higher energy level by doing mechanical work to *store* potential energy in it.