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Vitamin C has the chemical name ascorbic acid. This compound dissolves in water, so we can
take vitamin C into our bodies easily in a drink. In this experiment you can find out which fruit juice
is best to drink to get lots of vitamin C.
Iodine has a brown colour when in solution and iodide ions are colourless in solution.
To make the iodine colour easier to see, starch is added – this makes a blue-black coloured
complex. We can use this reaction to compare the amounts of vitamin C in different juices.
To do this, we will make an iodine solution and add juice drop by drop until all the iodine has
reacted.
A juice with lots of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) needs a small number of drops to react with all the
iodine.
A juice with small amounts of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) needs a lot of drops to react with all the
iodine.
Water
Test-tubes
Test-tube rack
Plastic pipettes, one for each juice
10 x 10 cm piece of white card as background
Iodine solution
Starch solution
Eye protection
Fruit juices to test.
What you do
Results table
Questions
1. Which juice has the most vitamin C of the ones you tested?
4. How do your results compare with the information on the juice packaging?