"osmosis lab" question...?

Question

okay this is my hypothesis for a lab i had to do in biology:
If the carrot is placed in a high fructose solution then it will gain mass.

for the lab there were three carrots in three different cups, one cup had a high sucrose solution, the 2nd had a med. sucrose solution, and the 3rd was a low sucrose solution. the cups have the same amount of solution
i never got a chance to finish so does anyone know if it would actually gain mass? or what the result would be.. ?

in the hypothesis i meant to type high sucrose.. sorry i got confused!

Answer 1

The carrot would lose mass because the high sucrose solution is hypertonic for the carrot's cells. More water will go out of the cells into the sucrose solution than the amount of water that goes into the cells. With less water in the cells, the cells have less mass.

Why is high sucrose solution hypertonic? It has more sucrose concentration than the cell, so it has a lower water concentration than the cell. Water moves from high concentration in the cell to the lower concentration in the sucrose solution.