Measuring Nutrional Value

[ecstephy]

I am trying desperately to start my 2 year science project and my Thesis statement should hopefully be :
Do ripe genetically modified tomatoes have the same nutritional value as a fresh organic tomato

is there anyway that I personally could measure nutritional value? or vitamin levels....?

[barretttomlinson]

Hi,

The answer is yes to both your questions. You can fairly easily measure vitamin C levels, for example. Here is a Science Buddies experiment to do so:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... A&from=TSW

You can also measure nutritional value. Here are review articles on approaches to doing so:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/tb1880/tb1880b.pdf

http://www.misa.umn.edu/vd/bourn.pdf

http://www.world-food.net/scientficjour ... od/f10.pdf

You did not indicate your education level. Is this an advanced high school project, or are you attemptling college level work? If you have access to college level facilities I strongly recommend doing some literature surveys in this field before going much further. A search of Chemical Abstracts and other abstracting services would likely inundate you with relevant information as this general area has been heavily studied by others.

Best wishes for a successful study!

Barrett Tomlinson

[ecstephy]

Oh Thank you so much! This is a Honors-AP project for my Sophomore and Junior year of High school. I have to take notes on twelve sources and write a five page paper about it ! Thanks so much! Life just became a little less stressful!