Food Tests Flashcards
Protein
Biuret reagent is used to test protein.
Blue Biuret reagent turns purple if a protein is present.
Proteins are used for building up the cells and tissues of your body as well as the basis of all your enzymes
Found in
Chicken Fish Beans Cheese Milk
Fats/lipids
Ethanol is used to test fats/lipids
Ethanol added to a solution gives a cloudy white layer if
a lipid is present.
Fats are made up of three different fatty acids joined to a molecule of glycerol
Found in butter, meat, fish, dairy products
Sugar
Benedict’s solution is used to test sugar
Blue Benedict’s solution turns brick red on heating if a
sugar such as glucose is present.
Starch
Iodine is used to test starch
Yellow–red iodine solution turns blue–black if starch is
present.
Cells
Cells are the basic building blocks of living things. The human body is composed of trillions of cells.
Tissue
A tissue is a group of similar cells working together.
The four types of tissues in the body of epithelial connective muscle and nervous.
Organ
An organ is a group of different tissues that work together to do a particular job.
A group of tissues working together is called an organ.
Organ system
An organ system is a group of organs working together.
These different body systems include the skeletal, nervous, muscular, respiratory, endocrine, immune, cardiovascular, urinary, integumentary, reproductive and digestive system
Organism
An organism is a group of organ systems working together.
An organism is any individual entity that embodies the properties of life.
Carbs
Carbohydrates provide us with the few that makes all of the other reactions of life possible
It is found in
Bread
potatoes
rice
pasta
