Brandon Williams

11/1/10

Fats are a natural part of the human body. Some fats are good some are bad, but
you need fat to help regulate your blood pressure and clotting. Unsaturated fats are
good because they lower cholesterol.

I am doing this experiment so I can see and compare how much fat is in an biscotti
compare to other food.

Materials

Acetone Stirrer Graduated Cylinder

Beaker Petri-dish

Day one Procedure- weigh a beaker after you found the mass of your food. Record
the weight of the beaker with food in it. Add 10mL of acetone in the beaker then stir
for one minute and let it set for one minute. Pour only the acetone from the beaker
in to the Petri-dish. Move both the Petri-dish and beaker to a well ventilated area.
Day two- get beaker and weight it with food in it. Then record your data (your food
mass should have changed). Subtract new data from old data and the difference is
the amount of fat your food had.

Food type Weight of Weight of with Amount of fat Amount of fat

beaker with food (Day 2) exacted from exacted from
food (Day 1) food food
Biscotti 173.7 171 Total (g) % of fat in food
2.7/11.9 22.7

Food type Observations of food

biscotti Brown hard big white thing in it

I think the chocolate biscotti is going to have a little bit more fat compared to
everything else because it has nuts in it.

Food Fat
Butter bagel 12%
Biscotti 22.6%