Carbohydrates Chemistry Lab Report

Discussion:
The experiment lacked a proper control - While the experiment could not answer the research question, this does not disprove the possibility for the choice of bread to affect blood glucose levels; the obtained results were simply not sufficient to prove a connection. This might be due to several reasons, but as the experiment lacked a control subject which the other values could have been compared to, the results are completely unusable. However, there is no consistency in the results and a control would not have changed that. This is probably due to the sample size.

The group size limited the amount of subjects to four, of which one half ate light bread and the other half dark. During the exertion of the first trial, the group came to a conclusion of what we wanted to improve for our second trial, which we would later not be able to perform. One of the conclusions were, as previously mentioned, that a control was necessary - without a control, drinking water or not consuming anything, it is impossible to claim that the results were affected by the bread ingestion, as there was no reference point to compare to it might as well have been due to the amount of
With an improved procedure the question could have been answered with this methodology, but the aim was to find out the affect of carbohydrates on blood glucose levels, but the methodology provided an answer for the question without going into depth of the biochemistry and carbohydrate structure. This could be solved by amending the aim or by constructing some sort of pre-experiment with the bread that would be used to compare the structure of Danskt Rågbröd compared to Rosta, which could be used to explain the results obtained from several trials, a control and a bigger sample size. With this, the aim would be fulfilled and the study would have had a stronger connection to the biochemistry unit we were working