Muscle Milk Lab

Lab Report

The FDA, whom regulates our nation’s food supply, states that their is protein in yogurt, whole milk and muscle milk. With protein being an important part of our everyday lives, is it true that we’re really consuming any in these following products? We obtain our absorbances using a spectrophotometer to test for protein. We add 1 ml of dye reagent into seven cuvettes, let it sit for five minutes and use that to test for protein in our samples at 595 nm. As a result, all of our samples contain protein with muscle milk containing the most. We use Table 1, Table 2 and Figure 1 to visually show our results. The experiment proved our hypothesis to be true. Not only did it prove our hypothesis right, but it also proved that the FDA provided

Food and Drug Administration is responsible for assuring the safety, efficiency, and security of the public health through cosmetics, biological products, medical devices, products that emit radiation and our nation’s food supply. How often the FDA regulates food supply is solely based on “the type of facility, the type of food processed or handled at the facility, and the public health risk associated with the product.” In this experiment, we test the FDA to see if what they’re telling us is accurate, and we use protein to do so. Protein is an important macromolecule that is essential to our everyday life. It is important for the “growth and development in children, teens and pregnant women,” and can be found in many of our everyday items; in our case, milk and yogurt. Before the experiment, it was hypothesized that protein would be found in whole milk, muscle milk, and yogurt when tested for by using the Bradford

As shown in our results, our hypothesis was correct because there was definitely protein in each of our substances, however just some more than others. As shown in Table 2, muscle milk has the most protein with 60.45 mg/mL.

As stated in the results, our hypothesis of there being protein in all of our samples was shown to be correct. While it is true that each sample has different amounts of protein in them, they all do contain some amounts of protein as stated on the labels. The FDA being the regulators for our food and many other things, are shown to be providing true information on our labels in stores, at least for protein in these following products.

"U.S. Food and Drug Administration." How Often Does FDA Inspect Food Manufacturing Facilities? 28 Sept. 2015. Web. 16 Oct. 2015. .

"Protein in Diet: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia." U.S National Library of Medicine. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 30 Apr. 2013. Web. 16 Oct.