Food Tests🌮

Question 1

What Is added to test for glucose

Answer 1

Benedict’s solution

Question 2

Explain the procedure to test for glucose

Answer 2

Add benedicts In test tube

Heat the test tube for five minutes in a water bath at sixty to seventy degrees

Colour change will be from blue to orange or brick red

Question 3

What is added to test for protein

Answer 3

Biuret solution

Question 4

Explain the test for protein

Answer 4

Add drops of biuret solution to the food sample

Colour change will be from blue to violet/purple

Question 5

What do u add to test for starch

Answer 5

Iodine

Question 6

Colour change if the starch is present in the Sample

Answer 6

Yellow brown to blue black

Question 7

What do you add to test for lipids

Answer 7

You ad ethanol to the sample as well as the same volume of cold water as the ethanol

Question 8

How to know lipids are present

Answer 8

Emulsion will be forming ( cloudy emulsion )

Question 9

What do u add to test for vitamin C

Answer 9

You ad DCPIP to the sample

Question 10

Colour change if vitamin C is present in the solution

Answer 10

The colour of the DCPIP will start to disappear ( blue colour will start to disappear )