Sebastian Morell

DYO Assessment Investigation

Background: Satured fat is bad because it’s unhealthy and Unsatured fat is healthy. Satured fat
can cause you high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Procedure: were doing this because we want to know how much fat is in the food were testing.

Materials: Acetone, Beaker, Graduated cylinder, Petri dish, Biscutti cookie

Procedure: Weight an empty beaker, graduated cylinder, 5g of acetone 10 ml inside. Weigh the
beaker with the food and plus 10 ml more acetone, stir, settle for a minute. Pour on the Petri dish. Add
10 ml acetone to the food repeat step. Weigh beaker and record data.

DATA

FOOD TYPE WEIGHT OF BEAKER W/ WEIGH OF BEAKER W/ AMOUNT OF FAT

FOOD DAY1 FOOD DAY2 SATURDED FAT FOOD %
Biscutti cookie 174.2 166.9
4.3(g) 7.3

CLASS DATA

food % FAT
Snicker 36%
Potatoe Chip 22%
Choc. Chip cookie 24%
Granted Bar 10%