Food Tests Flashcards

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Explain the starch test

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Add iodine to food

Colour change yellow brown to blue black

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Test for sugar

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Benedicts
Grind food in pestle and mortar, add to test tube, add Benedicts, boil in water bath

Blue to green to brick red

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Test for protein

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Biurets
Grind food in pestle and mortar
Add sodium hydroxide, then few drops of copper sulfate

Blue to purple

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4
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Fat test

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Emulsion
Grind food
Add ethanol
Clear white emulsion

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5
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Test for vitamin C

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Dcpip
Add dcpip
Blue to pink to colourless

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