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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

The Fruit:

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.

Function of the Fruit:-

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.

Material Required

• Test Tubes
• Burner
• Litmus paper
• Laboratory reagents
• Various fruits
• Vegetables juices

Chemical Requirements

• pH indicator
• Iodine solution
• Fehling solution A and Fehling solution B
• Ammonium chloride solution
• Ammonium hvdroxide
• Ammonium oxalate
• Potassium sulphocynaide solution.

Components of Food

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 death 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 cuff ^ to failure of haemoglobin synthesis

Procedure

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.

Test	Observation	Inference
Orange Test:
Test for acidity:
Take 5 ml of orange juice in a test tube and clip a pH paper in it. If pH is less than 7 the juice else else the juice is basic.	The pH comes out to be 6.	Orange juice is acidic.
Test for Starch:
Take 2 ml of juice in a test tube and add few drops of iodine solution. If turns blue black in colour than the starch is present.	Absence of blue black in colour.	Orange juice is acidic.
Test for Carbohydrate (Fehling’s Test):
Take 2 ml of juice and 1 ml of fehling solution A & B boil it. Red precipitates indicates the presence of producing sugar like maltose, glucose, fructose & Lactose.	No red coloured precipitates obtained.	Carbohydrate absent.
Test for Iron:
Take 2 ml of juice add drop of conc. Nitric acid Boil the solution cool and add 2-3 drops of potassium sulphocyanide solution. Blood red colours shows the presence of iron.	Absence of blood red colour.	Iron is absent.
Test for Calcium:
Take 2 ml of juice add Ammonium chloride and ammonium hydroxide solution. Filter the solution and to the filterate add 2 ml of ammonium Oxalate solution white ppt or milkiness indicates the presence of calcium.	Yellow precipitate is obtained	Calcium is present

Conclusion

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

 

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