Design and carry out an experiment to find out the energy content of various foods.
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SC1 Investigation Problem For this piece of coursework, I intend to design and carry out an experiment to find out the energy content of various foods. Method For my experiment I have chosen four different foods that I will test for energy content, they are sweetened banana chips, toffee popcorn, original flavour Hula Hoops and salted peanuts. I will use the following apparatus and will set it up as shown: For the experiment all I am going to have three variables, the food that I use, temperature of the water and the weights of the food won't all be equal, everything else will be kept the same, the distance of the candle from the test tube, the amount of water in the test tubes, etc. I will fill the test tube with 25cm3 of water using a measuring beaker. I will do three or four tests of each food as to...

