Glucose tolerance test

In the book Care of People with Diabetes, by Trisha Dunning, she asserts, “Alternative sweeteners elicit a pleasurable sensation without affecting the blood glucose.” Unlike sugar, artificial sweeteners do not have carbohydrates so they cannot raise blood sugar levels. When individuals have diabetes, it is hard to cut all sugar out of their diet so these sweeteners let them enjoy the taste of sugar. Dunning also…

Cholelithiasis Cholelithiasis or gallstones is the most common type of gallbladder disease that affects millions of people. Gallstones form in the gallbladder when biliary cholesterol increases. If a stone obstructs the cycstic duct, a patient may experience a sharp and severe pain because of the increased pressure in the gallbladder. Patients don’t know they have the disease because they are asymptomatic. The diagnostic techiniques used nowadays are less invasive and allows patients to heal…

caustic soda. Typically, cornstarch is 93% to 96% glucose. Because pure corn syrup is not sweet enough for food manufacturing, food processors add Enzymes to convert glucose into fructose, which changes the molecular structure. The exact ratio of glucose to fructose depends on the manufacturing process. Researchers from Princeton University concluded that the composition is about 42% glucose, 55% fructose, and 3% large sugar molecules. In HFCS, glucose and fructose occur in free form…

The traveling plum. Directly translated “Li Hing Mui” means traveling plum and it is no wonder since it is exactly that, a small deeply coloured plum that is cured with salt and then dried, preserving it for travel. With roots in China these little salty sweet and sour nuggets have traveled all over the world, a secret to those who know but hiding in plain sight in any China town grocery store. In the early 1900 imported Chinese ingredients started making it on the scene in Hawaii and Li Hing…

Steroisomerism - Compound shaping same structural formula but they differ in spatial arrangement. Example: Glucose has two isomers with respect to penultimate carbon atom. They are D-glucose and L-glucose. Optical Activity - It is the rotation of plane polarized light forming (+) glucose and (-) glucose. Diastereo isomeers - It the configurational changes considered C2, C3, or C4 in glucose. Example: Mannose, galactose. Annomerism - It is the spatial configuration with respect to the first…

given to lipids as water insoluble organic compound usually located in biological organisms or systems. A variety of test for different substances would be done in this experiment. The Molisch test is not carbohydrate specific but all monosaccharides disaccharides and polysaccharides barring exceptions should give a positive test for it (Harpercollege.edu 2015) . These give a positive test because hydrochloric acid dehydrates the carbohydrate to give an aldehyde . This aldehyde then condenses…

cells in a certain region of the brain are destroyed. Moreover, aspartame present in diet sodas can cause sugar craving and weight gain. Although the product is artificial, aspartame tricks one’s brain into thinking that he/she is consuming sugar. The ingredients in carbonated drinks will increase one’s desire for sugar, enticing him/her into consuming more delights containing sugar. Unfortunately, diet soda has been linked to weight gain, and the primary reason for it in diet cola consumers is…

energy that can be depleted. When the energy is temporarily lost, through the use of it on some other activity that required self-control, it becomes more difficult to exert self-regulation on a subsequent activity. Another study looked at blood glucose levels and self-control. According to their…

Comparing the average values (Team 1 representing our results) there is not much of a pattern when viewing the absorbance for each specific test tube for each team. Although, there are some values that were around the same range including test tube 2. As for enzyme change, the high amount of enzymes increases the absorbance that shows an increase in reaction as seen in test tube 4 (figure 1). However, because of the decrease at 30 minutes the results take a shift. Conclusion The Albumin…

sugar cane which is found mainly in tropical regions, and 30% of production comes from sugar beets which is grown in cooler regions mainly brazil. The most common sugar that we eat is referred to as “sucrose” which is broken down into fructose and glucose in the body. Sugar however is rarely…