Published on Apr 02, 2024
Aim is to analyse some fruits & vegetables juice for the contents present in them. 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
Development of fruit: After fertilization the ovary also begin to grow and gradually it matures into the fruit.The fruit may , therefore , be regarded as a mature or ripened ovary. If , for some reason or other, fertilization fails , ovary simply withers and falls off. A fruit consist of two portions, viz. The per carp ( peri, round: karpos, fruits) developed from the wall of the ovary, and the seed developed from the ovules, apples,pineapples and some other fruits the ovary may grow into the fruit without fertilization. Such a fruit is seedless or with immature seeds and is known as the parthenocarpic fruit. The paricarp may be thick or thin, when thick,it may consist of two or three parts: the outer cell epicarp, from the skin of the fruit; the middle, called meson carp, is pulpy in fruits like mango, peach, palm etc. and the inner catted endocarp, is often vary thick and membranous, as in orange, or it may be hard and stony as in many palms, mangoes, etc.In many cases, however, the pericarp is not differentiated into these three regions.
The fruit gives protection to the seed and , therefore, to the embryo. It stores food material . It also helps in dispersal of the seed. Normally it is only the ovary that grows into the fruit; such a fruit is known as the true fruit. Sometimes, however, other floral parts, particularly the thalamus or even the calyx, may grow and form a part of the fruit; such a fruit is known as the false fruit. Common examples of false fruits are apples, pear, cashew nut, marking not, rose, dillenia,etc.In dillenig, the calyx becomes thick and fleshy .
• Test Tubes
• Burner
• Litmus paper
• Laboratory reagents
• Various fruits
• Vegetables juices
• pH indicator
• Iodine solution
• Fehling solution A and Fehling solution B
• Ammonium chloride solution
• Ammonium hvdroxide
• Ammonium oxalate
• Potassium sulphocynaide solution .
1.CARBOHYDRATES: Carbohydrates are poly; hydroxyalcohols, which have an aldehyde or ketones group.They have general formula CnH2nOn.Carbohydrates are the main source of energy 1gm. Of carbohydrates yield 18KJ of energy. The monosaccharide serve as building block. Glucose is also used in formation of fats and amino acids.
2.MINERALS: Minerals from 1-3% of the cell contents. Any marked change in the concentration results in the mal functioning of cell and finally deathr some mineral present in the diet are :
(i) CALCIUM: It is the major component of bone and teeth. Calcium is required for blood clotting, muscle contraction, nerve impulse transmission and heart functioning.
(ii)IRON: Haemoglobin in our body contains iron which is the universal carrier of O2 & CO2 , efficiency of iron causes anemia cfu^ to failure of haemoglobin synthesis
The juices are made dilute by adding distilled water to it, in order to remove colour and to make it colourless so that colour change can be easily watched and noted down. Now test for food components are taken down with the solution
From the table given behind it can be conducted that most of the fruits & vegetable contain carbohydrate & vegetable contain carbohydrate to a small extent. Proteins are present in small quantity. Therefore one must not only depend on fruits and vegetables for a balance diet
