Food tests

Food sample

• Break up food using a pestle and mortar
• Add the ground up food and distilled water to a beaker
• Stir the mixture with a glass rod to dissolve some food
• Filter using a funnel lined with filter paper to remove solid bits of food

Benedicts test for (reduced) sugars - biscuits, cereal, bread etc

• Add 5cm³ of a food sample to a test tube
• Prepare a water bath to 75 degrees
• Add Benedicts solution (roughly 10 drops) using a pipette to the test tube
• Leave the test tube in the wate bath for 5 minutes (pointing away from you)
• If sugar is there…