Nutrients science experiment: Fatty Foods

By: Prae Partner: Laura

1. Researching and developing a question:

Me and Laura started this science process by being interested in Nutrients. So we started
researching about Nutrients. I ended up having information about food and its good side and
bad side. Next, we discussed that we would do an experiment testing the food in fat because we
wanted to see which food has the most fat so we got our question: Which food has the most
grease and oil? From that discussion, we searched the internet for a possible experiment we
could do to test the fat in food.
2. Creating a method:
After searching for an experiment, we found one we could do. We decided on doing a
experiment called Fatty Foods where we get different kinds of food and rub them 20 seconds on
a piece of brown paper grocery bag, then leave it 1 day. After that 1 day we have to observe
which food has the most grease and oil. Me and Laura will test French fries, Burgers, Burger
breads, Chips, Salami and Ketchup and lastly, mayonnaise. Our brown paper grocery bag pieces
are 10x10.
3. Creating a hypothesis:
The hypothesis that we created for this Fatty foods experiment was: All the food that is
processed, partly processed and deep fried is going to be the food with most grease and oil. This
is because these kind of food are pretty unhealthy and would be the most likely to contain a lot
of oil.
4. Doing the experiment:
We brought our stuff and Mr. Glenn also brought some stuff for our experiment. So me and
Laura rubbed each food on the paper for 20 seconds and we left our experiment papers in
baskets ready for the next day’s observing. The observations I made when the food were firstly
rubbed were: 1. Mayonnaise – grease all over and mayonnaise on the sides. 2. Salami – grease
in the middle. 3. Ketchup – Ketchup all over paper. 4. Pork burger – grease mostly in the middle.
5. Chicken burger bread – grease little only in some parts. 6. French fries – grease in the shape of
French fries. 7. Chips – grease scattered around in little dots. 8. Hamburger bread – Grease in 1
part of paper in dark dots. 9. Chicken burger – dark grease in some parts with mayonnaise on
corner.
5. Data gathered/ Results/Observations:
After 1 day of leaving the experiment paper, we checked it and my observations were: 1.
Mayonnaise – Ants all over, grease full on paper. 2. Salami – grease lessened, still in shape, faint.
3. Ketchup – Ketchup dried no grease. 4. Pork burger – Grease dried and lessened. 5. Chicken
burger bread – a lot of grease. 6. French fries – In shape of French fry, still there. 7. Chips – faint
grease and a lot of salt scattered. 8. Hamburger bread – medium scattered grease. 9. Chicken
burger – some salt, a bit pepper smell and grease. My grease list from more grease to less
grease: 1. Mayonnaise 2. Chicken burger 3. Chicken burger bread 4. Chips 5. Frenchfries 6. Porks
burger 7. Salami 8. Hamburger bread 9. Ketchup.
6. Conclusions:
The conclusions that me and Laura ended up with was: Some foods that are processed and
foods that are deep fried have the most oil and grease. This is because many processed food
include a lot of fat and other ingredients that produce all the grease we saw in our experiment.
Deep fried food includes a lot of oil which makes the food produce oil and grease in the
experiment.
7. Theory:
The theory that me and Laura created upon our conclusion was: Most processed food and deep
fried food are the kinds of food with the most grease and oil.
This is a picture of the grease papers.