In this lab we carefully cut parts of the beet (Beta) into little five millimetre discs making sure not to use the outside edge. The discs were then rinsed for ten minutes to remove pigment from the damaged cells. Each disc was placed in a 5, 25, 40, 55 and 85 degree Celsius water bath. This was timed for precisely one minute, then each disc was removed and placed into ten milliliters of previously measured distilled water at room temperature in a labelled test tube. They sat in the water for a duration of 30 minutes and were vortexed every 10 minutes. The solutions were transferred to carefully labelled cuvettes. A spectrometer was calibrated and used to measure the amount of betasaffrin in nm that was released. Three trials were performed
