Food Nutrient Analysis Kit

Scientific Concepts and Processes

This Lab-Aid is a variation of the Food Analysis kit (Lab-Aids No. 6). In this kit however, tests are performed using pure samples of the nutrients in order to standardize the tests.

Working in teams, students are asked to test for, and identify, five classes of nutrients: sugar, starch, lipid, protein and Vitamin C.

Once the tests have been completed and their observations have been made, students are then asked to draw conclusions about their results, the control variable and samples that showed no reaction.

This is an outstanding kit to demonstrate scientific methods, practices and processes.

It is necessary to have a hot water bath available for the test of simple sugars. This Lab-Aid has a limited shelf-life.

Kit Contents:

• 1 Teachers Guide with MSDS
• 30 Student Worksheets and Guides
• 30 Test tubes
• 1 Wax pencil
• 2 Starch Testing Solution, bottle

Drop Control Bottles:

• 1 Glucose
• 1 Vitamin C
• 1 Protein
• 1 Starch Suspension
• 1 Vegetable Oil
• 2 Fat Testing Solution
• 2 Protein Testing Solution A
• 2 Protein Testing Solution B
• 2 Sugar Testing Solution
• 2 Vitamin C Testing Solution