Whipping Cream Experiment

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Does a larger fat percentage mean more fat mass in cream? Background Information Each cream is made up of a different amount of fat content, Heavy Whipping Cream is 38% fat content, Heavy Cream is 36% fat content, Whipping Cream is 30% fat content, Light Cream is 10% fat content, Half and Half is 10% cream. These percentages show a large similarity to the experiments findings, showing that the creams with the larger percentage of fat also end up with a larger mass of curds. Fats are separated in to two groups, saturated and unsaturated fats. Unsaturated fats have doubled bonds, meaning that where a hydrogen atom would be the there is none so the carbon atoms bond together instead “the carbon atoms are busy double-bonding with each other, then they aren't forming bonds to hydrogen atoms” "The Kinds of Fat and Why It Matter to You." Indiana University. Web. Saturated fats are saturated with Hydrogen Atoms. In the creams that were tested in this experiment they …show more content…

Heavy cream contains 34.32g of saturated fats, .31g of protein, .42g of carbohydrates per serving size of. 14.18g Whipping cream contains 27g of saturated fat, 2g of protein, total carbohydrates 3g per serving size of 120g . Half and half contains 28g of saturated, fat, 7g of protein, and 10g of carbohydrates per serving size of 242g. There is a clear connection to the results of the experiment to the results of the research, the more saturated fat in the cream showed to produce larger curds and also showed the curds appearing faster. In the trial of the heavy whipping cream the curd started to form a mere 5 minutes into shaking, and then fully developed at the 10-minute mark. However with trial using the Half and Half cream the curds didn’t even begin to form until an upward of 30 minutes and even after the prolonged shaking the product of the cream was a mass of 16g in

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