Food and Digestion Lab Answer Sheet
Food and Digestion Lab Answer Sheet
Food and Digestion Lab Answer Sheet
Food 2 (Junk): pumpkin cookie contains sugar, and starch, and lipids
2) Use the following table to record your results for all 4 tests. Record both the color
of the resulting solution and whether the test is + or - for the molecule being
tested.
Food
Benedicts
Iodine
Biuret
Sudan IV
(simple sugar)
(starch)
(proteins)
(lipids)
Color
+ or -
Color
+ or -
Color
+ or -
Color
+ or -
Positive
Control
--
Red
olive
Purple
Clear pink
Negative
Control
--
Blue
gold
Clear blue
Light pink
Food 1
Dorritos
Orange
Dark blue
Light orange
peach
Food 2
Cookie
Dark
Orange
black
Mustard
yellow
Light pink
orange
Food 3
Pretzel
Green
black
yellow
peach
Food 4
Apple
Light red
Light
brown
Champaign
Pink orange
Food 5
Banana
Red Orange
Brow2n
Clear yellow
Super light
pink
Food 6
Peanut
Butter
Teal
Dark green
yellow
Light pink
3) What conclusions can you draw about the nutrients found in the foods you tested?
The Dorritos contain sugars and starch. The cookie contains sugar, starch and lipids.
The pretzel contains starch. The apple contains sugars. The banana contains sugar ad
lipids. The peanut butter contains lipids.
S1
S2
S3
Unknown-S
clear
clear
clear
Brown
Purple
black
olive
olive
olive
Is there presence of
starch? Y/N
G1
G2
G3
G4
Unknown-G
clear
clear
clear
clear
brown
Clear
blue
Clear
blue
Clear
blue
orange
Brown
orange
Table 2
Is there presence of
glucose? Y/N
Y
N
1) Billy was super hungry after class, so he stopped at In-n-Out and ordered a #3 (Double
double, fries, and a strawberry shake). As he is eating he wonders how his tasty meal is
being digested. Using the word bank below, create a diagram showing Billy how his
meal moves through his digestive tract (from mouth to anus) and how his body works to
Mouth
Esophagus
Stomach
Pancreas
Gall bladder
Lipase
trypinsin
digest it.
Salvia
HCl
bile
Small intestine
Rectum
Duodenum
Salivary glands
Amylase
Pepsin
Large intestine
Gastric juices
Anus
Pancreatin
Small intestine epithelium
2) Challenge question, if Billy ate a bunch of Tums (antacids) BEFORE eating at In-n-Out
would his digestion be affected? If so, how? Be sure to describe how the enzymes
would/could be affected and why.
Tums is an anti-acid, they inhibit the production of acid in the stomach and lower
the pH. The digestive enzymes would not be able to break down food because they
would not fully work at the lowered pH. So if Billy were to eat an excessive amount of
tums before eating, then he would experience discomfort from the undigested food,
maybe vomiting and other digestive problems.