Food Lab Procedure

Copy the following procedure into your notebook on the same page(s) as "Food Lab Procedure."

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If you do not have the procedure written (and it must be hand written) down in your notebook you will not be able to participate in the lab and therefore receive a zero.

Simple carbohydrate

1.              Add 5ml distilled water using a pipette to a test tube.

2.              Add 1ml or 1 gram of food sample to test tube.

3.              Add 20 drops of Benedicts solution.

4.              Place test tube in hot water bath for 10 minutes.

Complex carbohydrate

1.              Add 5ml of water using a pipette to the test tube.

2.              Add 1 ml or 1 gram food sample to test tube.

3.              Add 20 drops IKI solution.

Procedure: Amino Acids

1.              Add 5ml distilled water

2.              1 ml  or 1 gram food

3.              20 drops biuret solution

Fats

1.     Add 5 ml water using a pipette to a test tube.

2.     1 ml or 1 gram of food sample to the test tube.

3.     20 drops Sudan IV to the test tube.