E20-1 Experiment 20 Consumer Chemistry: Vitamin C in Fruit Juices The Task The goal of this experiment is to determine the concentration of vitamin C in a range of different fruit juices (fresh and preserved) using titration and to rank these sources of vitamin C. Skills At the end of the laboratory session you should be able to: * use a pipette correctly‚ * use a pipette filler safely‚ * manipulate a burette and carry out a quantitative titration properly‚ * weigh a sample
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Belonging to the B-complex vitamin family‚ an optimal amount of vitamin B5 should be included in a healthy diet to ensure good health and proper functioning of all the organ systems. This vitamin serves a wide range of functions in the body‚ from the production neurotransmitters in the brain‚ the fabrication of steroids‚ enhancing the immune system to the extraction of fats‚ proteins and other important nutrients from food. Vitamin B5 is also found in blood plasma and is sometimes called panthenoic
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Research Question: How the amount of vitamin C in fruit juices affects its freshness and till what extent is the information provided on the pack by manufacturers is reliable? Background Information: Hypothesis: -fresh juices have more vitamin C than long-life -juice that is ‘not from concentrate’ is best in terms of vitamin content -if heat destroys vitamin C then heat-treated long-life juices will have lower concentrations -if heat destroys vitamin C then boiled fruit juice will have
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Fat and Water Soluble Vitamins Every day‚ your body produces skin‚ muscle‚ and bone. It churns out rich red blood that carries nutrients and oxygen to remote outposts‚ and it sends nerve signals skipping along thousands of miles of brain and body pathways. It also formulates chemical messengers that shuttle from one organ to another‚ issuing the instructions that help sustain your life. To do all this‚ your body requires raw materials. These include vitamins that your body needs but cannot manufacture
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Soluble Vitamins SCI/241 According to the textbook “vitamins are organic compounds that are essential in the diet in small amounts to promote and regulate body processes necessary for growth‚ reproduction‚ and the maintenance of health.” (Grosvenor & Smolin‚ Ch. 7 pg. 200) Vitamins are classified into two groups based of their solubility‚ as some are soluble in water and others are soluble in fat‚ with these characterizations we are able to know more about how the different types of vitamins are
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experiment 1 Analysis of Commercial Vitamin C Tablets Objective To employ titration technique to determine the content of vitamin C in commercial tablets using volumetric analysis and compare it with the manufacturers’ specifications. Introduction Deficiency of essential antioxidant Vitamin C in human will lead to scurvy. In this experiment‚ the vitamin C content of commercial tablets is determined and then compared with the manufacturers’ specifications. Vitamin C‚ ascorbic acid C6H8O6‚ reacts
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Project Title: Making of Malunggay Salad and Lemon Grass Juice I. INTRODUCTION 2.1 BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM One of the main issues that we have right now is getting the right vitamins and nutrients to our body. How we will do this is by choosing the food that we eat. Aside from that‚ we have to take consideration its cost. Can Filipino‚ in all walks of life‚ afford a healthy meal? More Filipinos have been eating rice just to withstand empty stomach rather than eating a balanced
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person needs a daily intake of Vitamin C to stay healthy; therefore‚ one should be aware of what fruits he/she should ingest daily or more days to obtain stronger stamina and the abundance of antioxidants in the body to reverse oxidation. Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid is essential for normal growth of humans and it helps in the repair and reconstruction of body tissues lost over time. It is an antioxidant that blocks the damage caused by free radicals. People who take Vitamin C daily tend to build up a
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the vitamin C content of different fruit juices. To identify which fruit juices has higher vitamin C content and the lowest vitamin C content. To determine the standard curve of vitamin C based on percentage of vitamin C. To differentiate between fresh juices and carton juices. To consider the reliability and validity of the results. PROBLEM STATEMENT Which type of fruit juices has the most vitamin C content? HYPOTHESIS The smaller the amount of the fruit juices
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Top Vitamins for Bodybuilders: Biotin: There’s a limited amount of sports nutrition research on Biotin‚ it makes our top list because it has critical functions in amino acid metabolism and the production of energy from many sources. It also may be one vitamin that some bodybuilders have trouble when attempting to maintain an adequate supply. Reason bodybuilders may have difficulty with Biotin is because it can be blocked by a substance. Biotin In our Foods: Avidin is found in raw egg whites‚
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