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AIM
To analyse some fruits & vegetables juice for the contents present in
them.
INTRODUCTION
Fruits and vegetable are always a part of balanced diet. That means fruits
vegetables provide our body the essential nutrients, i.e. Carbohydrates,
proteins, vitamins and minerals. Again their presence in these is being
indicated by some of our general observations, like -freshly cut apples
become reddish black after some time. Explanation for it is that iron
present in apple gets oxidixed to iron oxide. So, we can conclude that
fruits and vegetables contain complex organic compounds, for e.g., anthocin,
chlorophyll, esters(flavouring compounds), carbohydrates, vitamins and
can be tested in any fruits or vegetable by extracting out its juice and
then subtracting it to various tests which are for detection of different
classes of organic compounds. Detection of minerals in vegetables or fruits
means detection of elements other than carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
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