Pare your sample and cut into small cubes

Sweet Potato Cassava Potato Corn

Weigh about 100 g

 Strain the pounded pulp through a piece of
coarse cloth. Repeat the washing, collecting all
the filtrate in the beaker
Collect the filtrate in a large beaker. Express the pulp
then add more water to the residue on the cloth

Sweet Potato Cassava Potato Corn

Transfer the product to a porcelain dish and dry in a

oven at 50 degree celcius.

Allow the starch to settle for at least 30 mins.

And then decant the supernatant liquid.

Add water and decant once more. Filter if necessary to

remove any remaining water from the starch
 Weigh the percentage yield

Sweet Potato Cassava Potato Corn

A. TEST FOR STARCH

Determine the color, odor, taste, appearance

Sweet Potato Cassava Potato Corn

solubility in water.
Boil gently for 2 mins and cool

Test a slurry of starch with Iodine T.S

Microscope Test:
 B. Extraction of Sugar

peel, cut into small add water,

weigh about 100 g homogenize with a
pieces
blender

squeeze out the juice, boil with lime to remove the scum
strain neutralize which rises to the top

concentrate by
filter the liquid through evaporating the when the sugar has
a filter paper solutionat much lower crystallized
temperature
 separate the crystals filter again concentrate
from syrupy molasses the solution
C. Chemical Test Sample Sugar

Osazone Test Seliwanoff's Test Aniline Tets

Mucic Acid Test Iodine Test

 Molisch Test Fehlings Test Barfoeds test

1 percent Sucrose
Fehlings

2ml of of Fehling's 1ml of the sample heat in water bath

Solution mixture

Barfoeds
 Barfoed's reagent heat for 30
0.5ml of sample
seconds

Osazone

Barfoed's reagent heat for 30

0.5ml of sample
seconds

aloow to stand for 15

mins.
 heat in a boiling water
bath for 30 mins allow to cool slowly Observe under
microscope

Seliwanoff

1ml of seliwanoff's
1ml of the sample boil in water bath
reagent

Aniline acetate
Let it stand for a couple
of minutes Observe

Mucic Acid

add a few drops of it's not formed blue

1ml of the sample
iodine solution color (negative)

Iodine test

1ml of the
1ml of the sample concentrated nitic heat in a boiling water
acid bath for 1 hour