by: Domonique Alston & Rachel Starner
Question?
The question for my project is, are food labels true? In other
words is what they say in food labels true.
Research
When doing the project there have been two kinds of fats (these
fats are called heart-damaging fats and saturated fats but the fats that are
listed on food labels are unsaturated fats). Saturated fats increase the risk
of heart disease. Now trans fats
(unsaturated) on the other hand are chemically different from saturated fat
this is because trans fat is not included with other heart-damaging fats on the
food labels. The amount of trans fat
can be determined with a little math.
There was also some research on this problem on the internet and some
people found out what really goes in our food so judging from that research
they may have found the real answer but you can never be to sure. Now fat free really means less that 0.5g of
saturated. Low fat means 3g or less.
Fat free that really means less than 0.5g per serving. Also reduced fat or less fat and that’s at
least 25% of saturated fat. Sugar free
means less than 0.5g,reduced sugar at least 25% less that reference food.
Process
1. Gather and set up 6 clean test tubes
2. Label the test tubes
3.Then take the dropper and begin using
it to drop at least 18 drops of water in each tube.
4.Once you are finish with the water
begin dropping the servings of what you testing on into the labeled tubes.
5.After you have finished that you must
add a dropper full Sudan Iv in a test tube that thumb on top of the tube and
begin to shake very well. This will tell if your serving has fat or not the way
that will happen is if your serving dose have fat the Sudan IV will begin to
rise to the top and turn red and if not the serving will stay the same.
6. After you have done that wait for
your results and record your data.