Protein Powders Lab Report

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For this experiment a standard curve and the absorbance values in two separate trials of the proteins powders Kroger whey &soy-protein vanilla and the Designer whey with acti-blend French vanilla were tested to determine which had a higher concentration the generic or a designer protein powder when analyzed in the same level of dilution. For the analysis and determination of the concentrations of the protein powders the standard curve needs to be created first. To create a standard curve, you will need to make six solutions from a stock solution with a 20mg/mL concentration, a calculated volume of water, and a volume of Buiret’s reagent. These were calculated using the formula C_1 V_1=C_2 V_2 these final numbers can be seen in figure one. Pipette the amount seen in below into the respective test tube and placing them individually into the spectrophotometer set at an absorbance of 565nm. …show more content…

Taking the absorbances that we observed we plotted the absorbance the (dependent in the experiment) and the concentration of protein (the independent in this experiment). Graphing this in excel gave the formula y=0.00118x-0.002 this formula will be used later to determine the concentration of our protein powders. When making the dilution of the protein powders we had initially had to calculate how many fluid oz. are in a serving for each protein powder we did this by using the conversion 1fluid oz. per 29.57mL (8fluid oz. x29.57mL/1 fluid oz.=236.56mL). For the next step of the calculations take the amount of powder in one serving size and divide it by the mL in a standard serving then multiple it by 2mL to give the number of grams of each protein powder in its respective 20 mL solution 18 of which are water. The calculations can be seen in the

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