Our group did a tasting lab today with all sorts of carbohydrates. We started our lab by separating all our carbohydrates into separate piles. We used sucrose, glucose fructose, galactose, maltose, lactose, starch, and cellulose. I started off by tasting glucose then fructose. Fructose was definitely the sweetest of them all and cellulose was the least sweet.
Cellulose would most probably be found in vegetables, like broccoli, because they're not sweet which is probably why most kids don't like it. Fructose is found in fruits, such as watermelons and strawberries, because they're sweet. As for the texture of the carbohydrates, most of them felt as if there was nothing in my mouth because they felt just like powder. Those carbohydrates are the galactose, maltose, lactose, starch and cellulose. Sucrose, glucose and fructose, though, felt granular and not smooth.
The pictures below are of the carbohydrates we tasted!
Cellulose would most probably be found in vegetables, like broccoli, because they're not sweet which is probably why most kids don't like it. Fructose is found in fruits, such as watermelons and strawberries, because they're sweet. As for the texture of the carbohydrates, most of them felt as if there was nothing in my mouth because they felt just like powder. Those carbohydrates are the galactose, maltose, lactose, starch and cellulose. Sucrose, glucose and fructose, though, felt granular and not smooth.
The pictures below are of the carbohydrates we tasted!
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