Chapter 3:

Methodology

Research Design

are concerned with turning the research question into a testing project. The best design depends

on your research questions. Every design has its positive and negative sides.

Research design can be divided into fixed and flexible research designs (Robson, 1993). Others

have referred to this distinction with ‘quantitative research designs’ and ‘qualitative research

designs’. However, fixed designs need not be quantitative, and flexible design need not be

qualitative. In fixed designs the design of the study is fixed before the main stage of data

collection takes place. Fixed designs are normally theory-driven; otherwise it’s impossible to

know in advance which variables need to be controlled and measured. Often these variables are

quantitative. Flexible designs allow for more freedom during the data collection. One reason for

using a flexible research design can be that the variable of interest is not quantitatively

measurable, such as culture. In other cases, theory might not be available before one starts the

research.

Materials

Fruits: -Cornstarch -Test Tube rack

1. Grapes -250 ml water - 2 Medicine droppers

2. Watermelon -10 plastic cups -Iodine solution

3. Pomelo -Strainer -Wire gauze

4. Pineapple -Knife -Tripod

5. Papaya -match - Alcohol Lamp

6. Orange -Stirring rod

7. Apple -Beaker - 1000ml

8. Guava - 500ml

9. Kiwi -10 Test tubes

10. Mango

Procedure:

The juice of each fruit were extracted and placed in assigned plastic cups. Add one tablespoon

off cornstarch into the 1000ml beaker then pour 250ml water. Mix it at the same time you boil it

for 5mins and this would be your starch solution. After you boil add 10 drops of starch solution

to a 75ml of water with the use of medicine dropper then add enough iodine solution to produce

a purple-bluish color and it would serve as an indicator. Add 10 drops of juice extract from the

same fruit together with your indicator and place them on each test tube. Label each test tube

with a corresponding number to identify it. Place each of them on a white background and wait

for 5-10mins. Arrange the juice extract from lightest to darkest, in that way you could identify it

because the lightest juice extract has more vitamin C content than the darkest color which has

less vitamin C content.