Liquid Vitamin Facts Inspire Kitchen Experiment
You can do an experiment in your kitchen to test liquid vitamin facts.
I have been very curious about a way we both could visual some liquid vitamin facts in our very own homes.
Finally, I found a simple way to let everyone see more of what all the vitamin supplement talk is all about. I decided to make a vitamin absorption assumption as many experiments must begin with. If a vitamin or mineral were to be absorbed by the body, they would have to be simplified and small enough to pass through the mucous membrane or through the villa in the small intestine. A similar permeable filter that most of us have in the kitchen is a coffee filter.
Now, I had to find something that could simulate the acidic conditions in our stomach. MSN Encarta states that stomach acid has a pH level of close to 2.0. With this in mind, lemon juice (ascorbic acid and citric acid) has a pH level of 2.3. The pH levels are very close and I felt would serve us well in our liquid vitamin fact experiment.
This experiment was simple from here. I placed an anonymous, very popular, pill form vitamin and a liquid vitamin in lemon juice for 2 hours. You can see the acidic lemon juice breaking down the pill form vitamin. The liquid vitamin does absolutely nothing in the presence of acidic lemon juice. I guess so much for the instant destruction of liquid vitamins in the presence of stomach acid; most chemical reaction give signs like heat or gas release.
From here, I filtered both vitamins and lemon juice mixtures through a coffee filter to see how much of the total volume could actually be absorbed.
The results were very interesting and definitely paint a picture for me regarding the questioned liquid vitamin fact; liquid vitamin absorption.
Daniel Weigum
- View my liquid vitamin facts experiment here!
I really enjoy the ability to visualize liquid vitamin facts verses take someone’s word for it.
