Calculating original sucrose concentration
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:56 am
Hello, I am doing this project for my science class: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/Files/12 ... cedure.pdf
I am a little confused with the calculations and interpretation of my results. I am hoping someone can help me please.
1. For the invertase part of the experiment, the glucose concentration was 1% at the linear time point of 20 min and plateau at 2% for product inhibition. This gave a 10% sucrose converted. Is that correct? this is with the 1:10 sucrose dilution.
2. For the food tested with invertase enzyme part, I am having trouble with the calculations. These are some of the foods I tested:
Rice Milk: Glucose of 0.5% before adding invertase; glucose reading of 0.92 (averaged from 3 trials) after adding invertase
This was not diluated 1:10 before testing. should my calculations be: (0.92%/10%) x 100% = 9.2%
Mt Dew soda: Glucose of 1% before adding invertase; glucose reading of 1.67 (averaged from 3 trials) after adding invertase
So if i were to calculate using the above information: (1.69%/10%) x 100% = 16.9 (this seems low for this soda). But the soda was also diluted 1:10 before adding invertase, so should this be the calculation: [(1.69%x10) / 10%] x100% = 169% (this does not seem right either).
Please help with this very interesting project. I am not understanding how others have gotten glucose measurements of 2.5% or more when the glucose strips measure only to 2% unless they are diluting and then multiplying by 10 for the 1:10 diluation. Please help with the two calculations above. thank you very much.
I am a little confused with the calculations and interpretation of my results. I am hoping someone can help me please.
1. For the invertase part of the experiment, the glucose concentration was 1% at the linear time point of 20 min and plateau at 2% for product inhibition. This gave a 10% sucrose converted. Is that correct? this is with the 1:10 sucrose dilution.
2. For the food tested with invertase enzyme part, I am having trouble with the calculations. These are some of the foods I tested:
Rice Milk: Glucose of 0.5% before adding invertase; glucose reading of 0.92 (averaged from 3 trials) after adding invertase
This was not diluated 1:10 before testing. should my calculations be: (0.92%/10%) x 100% = 9.2%
Mt Dew soda: Glucose of 1% before adding invertase; glucose reading of 1.67 (averaged from 3 trials) after adding invertase
So if i were to calculate using the above information: (1.69%/10%) x 100% = 16.9 (this seems low for this soda). But the soda was also diluted 1:10 before adding invertase, so should this be the calculation: [(1.69%x10) / 10%] x100% = 169% (this does not seem right either).
Please help with this very interesting project. I am not understanding how others have gotten glucose measurements of 2.5% or more when the glucose strips measure only to 2% unless they are diluting and then multiplying by 10 for the 1:10 diluation. Please help with the two calculations above. thank you very much.