Jose

Design Your Own Fat Lab

Background:
There are different types of fat that have different effects on the body.
The fat is grouped into two parts solids and liquids. The oils that come from animals
are saturated fats and the oil that come from plants are unsaturated. The oils from
fats are more healthy for the body and the one from animals are not and are more
likely to cause illnesses. The fats play a role in keeping the body healthy like the
skin, hair, nail, teeth, and bone healthy.
Purpose:
The purpose of this lab is to find the amount of fat in a given food. The
purpose is to also help use as scientists be more capable to do procedures on our
own and follow them accordingly.
Materials:
®Acetone ®Beaker ®Petri dish
®Graduated Cylinder
®Stirrer ®cookies
Data:
Beaker with out food: 160grams total grams of
fat: 2.2grams
Beaker with food: 168.5grams precentage of
fat: 25.9
Beaker after the acetone: 166.3
Prediction:
A peadiction that i have for the design your own lab is that their will be a large amount of fat that
is removed from the cookie because of the choloate that is in the cookie. I also beleive that the fat
extracted from the cookie to the petri dish will be waxy because of the fat from the choloate.
Conclusion:
While doing the lab with my partner, we completed the procedures to the best of our ability. Becuse of
the earilier labs that we had done we were able to follow the step accordingly. from the knowledge of
those same labs i was able to predict a correct assumption on how the lab will turn out. I had predicted
that the fat left in the petri dish with the acetone will become waxy and it did althought i ddnt peadict that
the fat would be rough which to me was suprizing beacuse the last one didn't turn out that way. All and all
i liked how the project went but not how ti smelled.