Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup Lab Report

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The Chemical Analysis of Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup Lab Partners: Julie Rezendes, Joshua Ra, Ilene Chen, and Abigail Brehm Introduction: The purpose of this lab is to find out if Great Value Chicken Noodle Soup contains the organic compounds (starches, proteins, lipids, and reduced sugars). Different procedures will be used to test for the presence for each organic compound inside the food substance. Four different tests will be used to find the organic compounds in the soup. To test for starch, iodine solution will be used. If the substance turns to dark black, then it indicates that it is positive. To test for reduced sugars, Benedict’s solution is used. If the substance turns to yellow, orange, or red, then it is positive. Biuret’s solution will be used to test for proteins. If …show more content…

If the chemical turns into a dark brown/black color, it indicates that Great Value Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup contains starch. Record the data along with the indicator. To test for reduced sugars, put one milliliter of Benedict’s solution in the test tube labeled Sugar using the Great Value Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup pipette. Add 1 milliliter of Benedict’s solution to a test tube labeled for water in the reduced sugars test as well. Add one milliliter of liquified Great Value Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup in the Sugar test tube and one milliliter of water in the water test tube. Place the the test tubes in a hot water bath for 3-5 minutes and wait for the chemicals to show whether or not it contained reduced sugars. Agitate both the test tube to help better the results. Wait until the Sugar test tube turns into a new color in the hot water bath. It could possible change into a yellow, green, orange, or bright red color. If any of the given colors are shown, then the Great Value Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup has been tested positive for the presence of reduced sugars. Record the data and add the indicator if tested

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