Alia Leung

Background:

Everybody needs fats. There are two kinds of fats: Saturated fats, and Unsaturated fats.
Saturated fats are unhealthy for you while unsaturated fats come from Animal products.
Unsaturated fats come from plants/veggies! The % at of a food is how much fat that food
contains.

Purpose:

We are doing this experiment to see the % fat inside a food.

Materials:

Acetone, stirrer, potato chips, beaker, petri dish, graduated cylinder.

Procedure:

1. Weigh empty beaker, after you find mass of beaker add five grams of food in beaker.
2. Record weight of beaker with food.
3. Add 10ml of acetone.
4. Stir till well mixed. (around one minute) Allow to settle after done stirring.
5. Pour only liquid into Petri dish. Food stays in beaker.
6. Add 10ml of acetone to food then repeat 4-5.
7. Place Petri dish with acetone and beaker with food in well ventilated area.
8. Allow acetone to dry over night.

After night:

9. Weigh beaker with food and record.

10. Clean beaker and food.
11. Calculate weight difference. (Amount of fat extracted from sample.)
12. Observe and record samples.

Food type Beaker with Beaker with Total g of fat % fat in food
food food after
Potato Chips 165 163.9 1.1 0.22=22%

I think there will be a lot of fat because there are starches and it was fried.
Class Date

Food % fat
Snickers 36%
Potato chips 22%
Chocolate chip cookies 24%
Granola Bar 70%

Conclusion: We removed fat from foods from crushing the food then mixing acetone with it. All
of the fats turned solid over time. I think the oils just hardened. Animal products contain more
fat because they’re saturated fats, which is unhealthy. The granola bar had a lot of % of fat in
it. I think it’s true because granola bars are to be healthy because it has a lot of unsaturated
fats, and unsaturated fats are healthy.