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To avoid those problems, diabetics carefully monitor their blood glucose level and make adjustments to insulin or diet, as needed, to maintain a healthy blood glucose level. In this science fair project, you will investigate the concentration of glucose in common fruits and juices.
You can test for these simple sugars in your foods by using Benedict's reagent, a solution made of copper sulfate and sodium hydroxide. You can purchase this solution in a drug store as it used to indicate the presence of sugar in the urine of diabetics.
7 sie 2019 · How to Test for Sugar. Prepare a test sample by mixing a small amount of food with distilled water. In a test tube, add 40 drops of the sample liquid and ten drops of Benedict's solution. Warm the test tube by placing it in a hot water bath or container of hot tap water for five minutes.
How to Test Foods for Sugars. The precise amount of sugar in food can be determined from the nutrition fact label found on packaged food or from USDA food charts. However, you can also determine the amount of sugar in foods by performing an easy science experiment.
28 sty 2020 · SwH Learning's Perfect Answer Revision Guides are available at https://swhlearning.co.uk Hazel and Emilia demonstrate another food test that appears in all GCSE and IGCSE biology specifications...
Measuring Glucose in Your Food. Abstract. You know that sugar makes food sweet, but did you know that there are different kinds of sugar? Sucrose is the granulated sugar that you usually use for baking. Another kind of sugar, which is found in honey and in many fruits, is glucose.
This is a simple and practical way to get students to discuss sugar content of foods, and leads in to discussion of nutritional content of foods, “healthy” foods etc. It can be run as a competition (either individual or group) in which students have to guess the sugar levels in advance.
