person needs a daily intake of Vitamin C to stay healthy; therefore‚ one should be aware of what fruits he/she should ingest daily or more days to obtain stronger stamina and the abundance of antioxidants in the body to reverse oxidation. Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid is essential for normal growth of humans and it helps in the repair and reconstruction of body tissues lost over time. It is an antioxidant that blocks the damage caused by free radicals. People who take Vitamin C daily tend to build up a
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E20-1 Experiment 20 Consumer Chemistry: Vitamin C in Fruit Juices The Task The goal of this experiment is to determine the concentration of vitamin C in a range of different fruit juices (fresh and preserved) using titration and to rank these sources of vitamin C. Skills At the end of the laboratory session you should be able to: * use a pipette correctly‚ * use a pipette filler safely‚ * manipulate a burette and carry out a quantitative titration properly‚ * weigh a sample
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Research Question: How the amount of vitamin C in fruit juices affects its freshness and till what extent is the information provided on the pack by manufacturers is reliable? Background Information: Hypothesis: -fresh juices have more vitamin C than long-life -juice that is ‘not from concentrate’ is best in terms of vitamin content -if heat destroys vitamin C then heat-treated long-life juices will have lower concentrations -if heat destroys vitamin C then boiled fruit juice will have
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Estimating the Vitamin C Concentration in Fruit Juices: A Redox Titration Prelab Assignment – Please turn your answers in on GaView prior to lab 1. How will you prepare a .02% (m/v) NBS solution? Calculations should be in your notebook before arriving to lab. 2. Provide the structure of vitamin C in its reduced form (ascorbic acid)‚ its ionized form (ascorbate ion- this is at equilibrium with reduced form when dissolved)‚ and its oxidized form (dehydroascorbate). 3. Why do you
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experiment 1 Analysis of Commercial Vitamin C Tablets Objective To employ titration technique to determine the content of vitamin C in commercial tablets using volumetric analysis and compare it with the manufacturers’ specifications. Introduction Deficiency of essential antioxidant Vitamin C in human will lead to scurvy. In this experiment‚ the vitamin C content of commercial tablets is determined and then compared with the manufacturers’ specifications. Vitamin C‚ ascorbic acid C6H8O6‚ reacts
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Vitamin C –A Natural Antioxidant Concept: Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is an antioxidant. The amount of vitamin C content in food can be found out by titrating with an oxidising agent‚ e.g. iodine. In the reaction‚ vitamin C is oxidised‚ while iodine is reduced to iodide ions. The endpoint is determined by the formation of blue-black starch-iodine complex when all vitamin C is oxidised and excess iodine is free to react with the starch solution added as indicator. Introduction Vitamin C is an
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orange juices‚ and we also used 0.1% of vitamin C solution. The aim of our experiment was to see how much DCPIP was needed to be added to make the orange juices turn back to the orange colour and the DCPIP to decolourise once the 0.1% of vitamin C was added. DCPIP is a blue dye in its non-reduced form; it becomes colourless when it gains electrons. Vitamin C is an anti – oxidant‚ this is found mainly in fresh fruit and vegetables. The main use of Vitamin C is that it neutralises free radicals‚ which
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Determination of Vitamin C by an Iodometric Titration Purpose: The goal of this lab is to determine the concentration of vitamin C in juices and Real Lemon. A redox titration‚ involving an iodometric method‚ will be used to do the analysis. The samples will be classified by their Vitamin C content. Introduction: Although most mammals can synthesize vitamin C‚ or ascorbic acid (C6H8O6)‚ from sugars‚ man must ingest considerable quantities of this substance. The National Academy of Sciences recommends
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IB Biology Lab – Vitamin C content of food Aim: To compare the vitamin C content of different fruits using the decolourisation of DCPIP from blue to clear as the indicator. • You first need to estimate the volume of a known concentration of vitamin C solution required to decolourise 2 cm3 of DCPIP solution. • Then you need to determine the volume of fruit juice that decolourises 2 cm3 of DCPIP solution. This gives an estimate of the concentration of vitamin C in fruit juice. • This
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1 mole 1 mole 1 mole 1 mole Aim To analyze the Vitamin C from a rival company and compare with that of my company and find out the best value for the money spent by the consumer. Controlled Variable * Mass of the tablet and hereby vitamin C in rival company tablets * Consistency of components in the Vitamin C tablet * Concentration of NaOH Apparatus 1. Burette (50ml) 2. Conical flask (50ml) 3. Vitamin C tablet (1 tablet per one trial) 4. Sodium Hydroxide
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