Iodine test for starch

Cards (2)

  • Equipment
    • Food sample
    • A test tube
    • lodine solution (0.01 mol/dm")
    • Pipettes. what is missing
    Stopwatch
  • Method
    1. Put some of the food sample into a test tube.
    2. Add a few drops of iodine solution to the food sample using a pipette Every 30 secs
    3. If starch is present, the solution turns from brown to blue-black. Note any colour change in a table of results.
    4. note down the time it took to Remain brown